It s not being dealt with. It s sheer bloody frustration. Her sons also earn their livelihoods by fishing. They have agreed to sit down together and have been trying to work out implementation. But in the Miramichi region, Mi kmaq fishers were determined to begin immediately to exercise this modicum of sovereignty once it was finally recognized in law.
People often use numbers to make the argument.
But the law is not based on numbers, and the integrity of the law is the one thing that keeps us from total chaos. I hated it, but it was almost something you had to do. Theodore echoes many of the non-Native fishers in denying the validity of the Mi kmaq s treaty rights as a sovereign people. I can t see a peaceful settlement. There s a lot of hard feelings.