HALIFAX – Three years after a First Nation started a self-regulated lobster fishery that sparked protests and violence in Nova Scotia, federal prosecutors are pressing ahead with charges against...
It should be the other way round, with “Indigenous first” policies.
Determine what sustainability means. Set limits in a way that allows for an actual livelihood without any individual or corporation being able to monopolize the fishery while allowing for a certain amount of noncommercial use, including for subsistence. If there’s anything left over, open it up to non-indingenous people using similar guidelines.
It should be the other way round, with “Indigenous first” policies.
Determine what sustainability means. Set limits in a way that allows for an actual livelihood without any individual or corporation being able to monopolize the fishery while allowing for a certain amount of noncommercial use, including for subsistence. If there’s anything left over, open it up to non-indingenous people using similar guidelines.
That would be good, but given the Governments track record (regardless of which party is involved) I doubt anything like that will be implemented.