Violence directed at Indigenous fishers in Nova Scotia leaves ‘black eye’ on Canada, says Mi’kmaq Senator, as he and rookie Mi’kmaq Grit MP urge long-term solution
'What we’re hearing from the Mi'kmaq communities themselves is that they're not willing to sell this right. They're not willing to take any sum of money and not practise their right anymore, they believe that they should just be able to implement their right,' says rookie Liberal MP Jaime Battiste, one of three Mi’kmaq Parliamentarians.
Acts of violence that have erupted in recent days in Nova Scotia as part of an ongoing lobster dispute have cast a “black eye” on the province, says Canada's first Mi’kmaw Senator.
One of three Mi’kmaq Parliamentarians who watched as clashes broke out last week when commercial fishermen rai...
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