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House Hansard - 77

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 30, 2022 11:00AM
  • May/30/22 8:16:14 p.m.
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Madam Chair, has the minister read the Supreme Court's Donald Marshall decisions I and II?
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  • May/30/22 8:16:23 p.m.
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Madam Chair, if so, then the minister knows that as it says in the government's mandate letters, this is the most important relationship. Can the minister tell the House whether the Marshall decision applies to Canada or just to Atlantic Canada?
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  • May/30/22 8:16:39 p.m.
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Madam Chair, the Marshall decision was respecting the Mi'kmaq community in Atlantic Canada, and it was based on a peace and friendship treaty signed—
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  • May/30/22 8:22:21 p.m.
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Madam Chair, the Marshall agreement does not set a limit, so when nations come forward and request to have access to a moderate livelihood fishery in a particular fishery, we, on a—
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  • May/30/22 8:22:36 p.m.
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Madam Chair, the Chrétien government created the Marshall response initiative and spent more than $600 million buying licences for boats and first nations. Did this not satisfy the Marshall Supreme Court decision?
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  • May/30/22 8:22:54 p.m.
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Madam Chair, if the Marshall response initiative did not satisfy the Marshall decision, then why did Prime Minister Chrétien call it the Marshall response initiative?
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  • May/30/22 8:25:43 p.m.
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Madam Chair, wow. I guess the minister knows a lot about the science when she shuts down a fishery. Has the Minister read the 2005 Supreme Court decisions known as the Bernard and the Stephen Marshall cases?
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  • May/30/22 8:26:01 p.m.
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Madam Chair, I am surprised. The Marshall decision narrows the definition of the right to hunt, fish and gather. Can the minister tell members how the decision did that?
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  • May/30/22 8:26:21 p.m.
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Madam Chair, Chief Justice McLachlin stated in the Stephen Marshall case that the right to hunt, fish and gather is limited to the things that first nations hunted, fished and gathered in 1761 when the treaty was signed. Since the minister did not know that, can the minister explain to me why the minister decided to expropriate 14% of the commercial elver quota—
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