{"id":16919,"date":"2020-09-21T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=16919"},"modified":"2020-09-21T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T01:12:00","slug":"premier-mcneil-issues-statement-on-southwest-n-s-fishery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=16919","title":{"rendered":"Premier McNeil issues statement on Southwest N.S. fishery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>HALIFAX:<\/strong> The following is a statement from Premier Stephen McNeil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the Peace and Friendship Treaties provide the Nova Scotia Mi&#8217;kmaq the right to harvest and sell fish, wildlife, and wild fruit and berries to provide a moderate livelihood.<br \/><br \/>The province recognizes and supports the legal, constitutional Aboriginal and treaty rights of the Mi&#8217;kmaq, and while many of the details surrounding the nature and extent of those rights are not clear, clarification is best addressed through open and respectful dialogue.<br \/><br \/>Nova Scotia Mi&#8217;kmaq are working as a Nation to determine what is required to implement those treaty rights, what it means, what it looks like and what rules should be put in place.<br \/><br \/>It&#8217;s good that the federal fisheries minister continues to speak with interested parties regarding this latest fishing dispute in southwest Nova Scotia. It is essential to find a path forward and that can only happen if all sides come together in a respectful and constructive way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discussions continue within communities and with the province on topics such as wildlife and forestry through the Made in Nova Scotia negotiation process.<br \/><br \/>Meanwhile, the province of Nova Scotia and the Mi&#8217;kmaq have entered into a number of interim collaborative management agreements, including moose population management and a forestry initiative.<br \/><br \/>Our objective is to have a safe and enjoyable moose hunt for Mi&#8217;kmaq and licensed hunters.<br \/><br \/>Any potential disruption of the legal moose hunt will be jointly addressed. While we respect the right for peaceful protests, it is illegal to interfere with a lawful hunt.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><em>Premier Stephen McNeil<\/em><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX: The following is a statement from Premier Stephen McNeil. &#8220;The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the Peace and Friendship Treaties provide the Nova Scotia Mi&#8217;kmaq the right to harvest and sell fish, wildlife, and wild fruit and berries to provide a moderate livelihood. The province recognizes and supports the legal, constitutional Aboriginal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,997,957],"tags":[1449,517,1450],"class_list":["post-16919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-columns","category-news","tag-fishery","tag-premier-stephen-mcneil","tag-sipeknekatik-first-nation-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}