Fisheries committee  I'm really not in a place to answer that type of question, Mr. Johns. I apologize. I'm just a historian. I can give you a historical perspective on that, but I can't answer contemporary questions like that.

Fisheries committee  First of all, I have to define what you mean by racism. I've already said in my opening statement that I think there are many good people within the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. I know that within the Government of Canada there are very good people, and some of them are li

Fisheries committee  Yes. Thank you for the question. I hope you can hear me. I presented evidence in the follow-up to Marshall, which was known as R v. Alex MacDonald, and prepared the 246-page report on this. I directly addressed that issue. We have extensive documentation from the late 18th cent

Fisheries committee  This was a long process. It occurred from the point of the American Revolution during the 1770s and the Loyalist immigration into Nova Scotia in the 1770s and 1780s. Most Mi’kmaq people actually live below the Shubenacadie River, in the areas of Queens, Shelburne and Yarmouth,

Fisheries committee  Thanks for the question. This is the Gabriel Sylliboy case I think you're referring to, in which Judge Patterson of the county court in Nova Scotia, on Cape Breton Island, ruled against Grand Chief Gabriel Sylliboy, who had been charged with hunting muskrat out of season. The up

Fisheries committee  I'll be short, and then I'll pass it over to the other panellists. What I would say in response is partly because I testified in Marshall. The lawyers for the federal government at that point, as well as the federal government, did not believe they would lose that case at the Su

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, I'm a historian at York University in Toronto, a city you might love to hate. Unfortunately, I'm also a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs. I am also an expert witness. I have testified for first nations, the Government of Canada and the attorney general of New Brunswick.