Chief George Ginnish at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

November 16th, 2020 / 5:45 p.m.

Chief Executive Officer, North Shore Mi’gmaq District Council, Eel Ground First Nation

It helped the community immensely. It generated $400,000.

We're in northern New Brunswick as well. Communities in New Brunswick have these HST revenue-sharing agreements. The communities that do well are the communities that are on the main highway, the Trans Canada. You get to Metepenagiag and you get to Eel Ground, and we're off the main drag. It's difficult to generate economic opportunity.

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