Okay Newfoundland and Labrador - Premier Dunderdale and responsible departmental ministers and deputies have found a way to stop the slaughter of the caribou herd in Labrador. Give the Quebec Innu hunting rights and management rights.
Yes that's correct slaughter animals illegally to the point of endangering the herd and you too can own a piece of the caribou pie. There is one hitch if you are a Labradorian you won't get a commercial hunt as you are doing things legally.
Now in return for this the Quebec Innu might recognize some herds are endangered if the government of Newfoundland and Labrador can prove it!
Remember now part of the reason the Quebec Innu gave for the slaughter/protest was to object to the Labrador Innu getting compensation for the Lower Churchill development - will the Quebec Innu also demand compensation for the Churchill development. Stay tuned - at this rate another slaughter may prompt our government to give them half the project.
The Montreal Gazette reports the following:
...the parties have decided to look for common ground to resolve the long-standing problem and a meeting took place Wednesday in Sept Iles between seven Innu chiefs and a N.L. delegation including three deputy ministers.
Gregoire said the sides have agreed to negotiations to tackle several issues, including the co-management of the Labrador caribou herd and the hunting rights.
"There is a will on both sides to settle this dispute," Gregoire said Thursday, adding the Innu will refrain from disrupting the ongoing caribou hunt during the negotiations.
Last February, some 150 Quebec Innu went on a caribou-hunting trip in Labrador to protest a deal that gives Labrador Innu hunting rights and compensation for the hydroelectric development of the lower Churchill River.
And if you wonder what our bureaucrats are doing for you - well three of the Deputy Ministers are up negotiating with the Quebec Innu - while the same government provides nobody to speak to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador about what might turn out to be the biggest giveaway yet.
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