The rival to March Madness and the seal hunt.
Submitted for your consideration, these extracts from the archives of the natural resources department:
2004: Minister disappointed in Innu response, and an update from an earlier statement.
2006: Ministerial statement
2007: Slaughter threatens Labrador caribou herd (also available en francais, no less)
2008: Increased enforcement is apparently now protecting the herds.
This year the annual caribou slaughter release is in March. Increased enforcement suddenly isn’t working quite as well as before.
At what point will the provincial government try and deal with this issue before the hunter’s hit the bush?
Just a thought.
-srbp-
15 comments:
if the quebec innu want to exercise their traditional right to hunt an endangered herd to extinction, they can also exercise their traditional practice of living on the proceeds of the hunt for the rest of the winter. the federal government should impose a fine, subtracted from their payments from INAC, equal to the cost of food for the whole band for the next three months.
then they can exercise their traditional right to try not to starve.
you can't have it both ways - either the quebec innu live their traditional life and therefore they must kill their traditional food even to extinction, OR they can rely on the federal government for monies to sustain them.
Where are the Innu of Labrador? Very quiet, don't you think? What would you like to see the provincial government do Mr. Hollett? Confront the Indians and maybe trigger another Oka or Ipperwash? Why should the government step in? Any other time the locals of Labrador would be crying foul. They constantly remind us it is "their" land. Let them handle it. I do credit you with at least a small splattering on the issue. That's more that can be said for your friend in Ottawa who continues his usual anti Newfoundland sputum rather than deal with any anti Labrador issues.
You raise a good question, Steve and given the supposedly excellent relationship between the Innu Nation and the NL government it's strange there isn't some sort of co-operative effort.
As for what the provincial government could do, I simply point out that nothing of substance appears to happen in between the Annual News Release which, as it turns out repeats largely the same sets of numbers: 40 to 50 animals out of a hundred.
I certainly would expect enforcement of applicable laws but apparently that is something the minister involved is cautious about since it would involve some danger to local law enforcement officials. Supposedly.
Your reference to Labradorians is, to put it charitably, childish.
That's more that can be said for your friend in Ottawa who continues his usual anti Newfoundland sputum rather than deal with any anti Labrador issues.
Steve:
(1) Provide a link to just ONE example of "anti Newfoundland sputum". Thanks.
(2) Perhaps you missed this.
Would you like me to translate?
And stay tuned.
Does anyone have any idea on why the Quebec innu are seeming targeting endangered herds?
This seems to make zero sense.
~DH
WJM: yeah, translate. While you're at it explain the ususal sarcasm.
Why did you refuse to publish my other comment, Mr. Hollett? Too inflamatory? Too truthful? Don't dare be critical of Labrador.
@ Steve:
What other comment, Steve?
First of all, unlike PAP and some other blogs, I don't screen and censor comments.
If you made a comment, it would be there.
Second, I get copies of every comment in my e-mail inbox but that is only as a matter of record.
The last one I have from you is the one about usual sarcasm, which you see above. Other than that, the next one is the one in which you question why a comment doesn't appear - a comment which, if you posted it, would actually be there.
@DH:
It seems to be a combination of asserting traditional rights to use resources combined with a claim to aboriginal rights in that part of Labrador.
Even allowing for that, it it doesn't make any sense.
Then again, if you look at the ProvGov releases over the past five years you see the same numbers every year: 40 to 50 animals and a herd of only 100.
At that rate, there'd be negative 150 to 200 animals in the herd right now, which is clearly ludicrous.
Well, Mr. Hollett I did send another lengthy comment, which I admit did digress from the topic some, so I must assume it is lost in cyberspace.
By all means post it again, if you have a copy or can recall it. In the meantime, feel free to send it directly or as a copy now and in the future to bondpapers at hotmail dot com.
That should help ensure that it gets through.
Thank you for offering me the opportunity to post my comments again. However, I failed to save a copy and I doubt I could recall everything exactly so I shall save it for another day. I am no computer wizard,hence the failure to save a copy. In fact, I am,as suggested by your learned friend in Ottawa, illiterate. And he is correct, therefore I require a reader and a scribe.
Steve, that's something I experienced a few years ago when I first started blogging.
I sometimes lost entire posts to the vagaries.
If you've got any concerns about a comment at any time, then by all means fire it off in a copy to the e-mail address.
I may not agree with you but it's the dialogue and the argument and the conversation that matters. Lately the only thing I've seen fit to delete is when comments descend into nothing more than a bunch of misspelled words and the phrase "f*** you".
Thank you again Mr. Hollett. I try not to resort to such small talk,unless such derogatory accolades are bestowed on me; not that I am not capable of that kind of language. I try to stay on topic but unfortunately I am not the learned individuals like yourself and your scholarly friend in Ottawa, therefore, I miss some of your points. I am an old fart who never availed of a University education, regrettably.
La commission d’enquête estime pertinent que les ministères du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs et des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune travaillent à la création d’aires de protection pour le caribou forestier dans le secteur de la rivière Romaine, en collaboration avec le gouvernement de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, afin de faire coïncider ces aires sur la Côte-Nord et au Labrador. Ces aires devraient être créées avant la mise en eau des réservoirs.
The review panel judges it of imporatnce that the [Quebec] departments of Sustainable Development, of Environment and Parks, and of Natural Resources and Wildlife, work towards the creation of woodland caribou protected zones in the Romaine River area, in conjunction with the government of Newfoundland and Labrador, in order to co-ordinate these [protected] zones in the North Shore and in Labrador. These zones would be created before the flooding of the [Romaine project] reservoirs.
Quebec officials want the two provinces to work together on proecting the caribou populations that straddle the southern Labrador boundary.
I wonder what officials in the other province will do in response?
Why thank-you Mr. McLean for that translation. A question for you:
What would you like to see the other province do or what would you suggest it should do?
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