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Originally Posted by Firebot
...the federal government is 110% to blame for this fiasco. They are the ones that handle the ocean...
How about putting in writing that the Mi'kmaq can fish lobster 12 months of the year, with restrictions on maximum traps allowed per boat for 8 of the 12 months and to not allow fishing of lobster smaller than a set size?
Not that hard. Done, the Mi'kmaq would be pretty happy. The government is weak and does not want to be seen as the government that gives preferential treatment to a minority group against the best interests of the majority. Much like how Trudeau didn't want to have his own Oka earlier.
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Technically it is in writing that the Mi'kmaq can fish 12 months a year.
Also the federal government has as much authority to dictate exact limits on the Mi'kmaq people as they do to set exact limits on American fishers.
So it isn't
that simple.
However, the federal government getting together with the Council of Mi'kmaq Chiefs to define "moderate living" would be reasonable.
At the same time it's hard to argue what the Mi'kmaq are currently fishing isn't reasonable.
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