I started to detail it earlier. Really, at the core of the problem is that the government has good intentions to reach rights reconciliation agreements with the nations, but the problem is that as a tactic during the negotiations they stopped enforcing the law. That only empowered people to keep fishing outside of regulations. It has obviously been a failed tactic. What we've seen come of that is 12 nations get up from the table and not one sit down. I think it's a really obvious sign that things aren't working out here.
We also need to recognize the fishery access that already exists in the communities. I want people in first nations to be allowed to fish. I care about social, economic and environmental justice for all fishers, regardless of heritage, but the current state is not producing Mi'kmaq fishermen. We need to change the process. What I find most immoral about what the government has done so far is that after 21 years of no legitimate final reconciliation of these rights for Mi'kmaq fishers, they're only attempting to do more of the same, and it's only going to drive more division.