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A Mi’kmaq chief in Nova Scotia says the provincial authorities continues to disregard First Nations’ considerations on a brand new legislation they are saying targets their neighborhood’s potential to guard its territory.
Twila Gaudet, who works on behalf of the Meeting of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs, says the legislation was not too long ago pushed via the legislature with out superior discover or session.
Amongst different issues, the legislation prohibits protesters from blocking forest entry roads or constructing a construction on Crown land.
Offenders face fines as much as $50,000 and as much as six months in jail.
Gaudet says the invoice seems to focus on Mi’kmaq neighborhood members who’re protesting what they are saying is unsustainable forest administration practices within the Cape Breton Highlands.
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Minister of L’nu Affairs Leah Martin says she is having conversations with the meeting and different chiefs, however she notes that the legislation doesn’t legally require formal session with Mi’kmaq leaders.
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The legislation, Gaudet says, “takes aim at Charter-protected freedoms of peaceful assembly and expression, and at structures used by the Mi’kmaq when exercising our constitutionally protected Indigenous and treaty rights.”
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