From my experience in my riding, where we have 10 Nuu-chah-nulth nations and the Qualicum nation, I know that indigenous fishers are regularly shut down in the name of conservation. We see the government spending millions of dollars fighting them in court. We even have judges at the Supreme Court level say that DFO has knowingly gone to the table with an empty mandate, without truthfully showing up to the table. We see that systemic racism.
Do you believe that this committee should be studying systemic racism? In what ways are what's happening in Nova Scotia reflective of the bigger issue happening with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans?
This is for you again, Chief Prosper.