Fisheries committee  It's pretty hard actually to talk about something that you're not really aware of. A moderate livelihood, I think, would be.... I would end up in a lot of trouble if I tried to define it myself. I won't.

Fisheries committee  The netukulimk would seriously have a whole impact on this. Mi'kmaq won't go out there to get rich. We don't have a lot of rich people around us. We share our resources with everybody, so you're not going to see that. But you do need people out there practising a moderate livelih

Fisheries committee  Wela'lioq.

Fisheries committee  There's always a need for dialogue in any place. That's how our country was formed. There has to be give and take in everything that we do. I don't really think what we're doing here will have an impact on any of that, because we are a nation in Mi'kma'ki, so we take care of each

Fisheries committee  There was actually no movement, in my opinion, because.... I was a part of the transition from the PCs to the Liberals. There was some, but when we started talking about treaty-related measures and coming back to the table and trying to discuss the implementation of our rights, t

Fisheries committee  Oh my God. That is such an absurd way to try to protect species or conservation, especially when you know that you have 50,000 extra traps out there in any given season, in any given year. It's vandalism. It's taking away from people who are really impoverished, who are working

Fisheries committee  Yes, I do wholeheartedly, because I think first nations are the best resource people ever. We've been here for thousands of years, and we've shown the world and everybody around it that we do protect our Mother Nature and everything that's involved in it in this world, really.

Fisheries committee  Yes, I do, 100%. I support any nation in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick or the Maritimes that wants to do its own management plan under the terms and conditions of netukulimk. Netukulimk is a very strong word. I started hearing this when I was a youth living with my grandfather, be

Fisheries committee  I heard everything in French, and I really didn't understand it. Did you say, “If it's a moderate livelihood?” As Shelley was saying, you can't define a moderate livelihood, because it's been our way of life for the last many thousands of years, and times have changed, and so ha

Fisheries committee  I find it really disheartening, because as I looked at and participated in stuff in Saulnierville.... I went there as somewhat of a peacekeeper, really, because I knew tensions would rise. The fact that DFO is not going out there in the water and doing what it is supposed to do r

Fisheries committee  Hi. My name is Allison Bernard. I'm employed with the Mi’kmaq Rights Initiative. I've been involved on the fisheries file for the last 10 years, really. I've seen a lot of ups and downs, and I've seen two different governments try to pursue this. My experience with this has been