With Liberal election win, First Nations in N.B. look forward to improved relations

Chief Allan Polchies says helium is excited astir New Brunswick’s caller Liberal provincial government.

Polchies, of St. Mary’s First Nation, says helium looks guardant to meaningful dialog with premier-designate Susan Holt aft years of tense relations with the outgoing Progressive Conservatives nether Blaine Higgs.

He is 1 of six Wolastoqey Nation chiefs who person filed a onshore assertion for a important portion of the province, arguing pact rights person not been respected by corporations and governments, some of which person exploited the onshore for hundreds of years.

The December 2021 tribunal situation has been a sore constituent betwixt Indigenous Peoples and the Higgs’s government.

Eight Mi’kmaw communities are besides asserting Aboriginal rubric to onshore successful the province, and they accidental they anticipation to enactment with Holt and her squad connected “advancing issues that are important to our communities.”

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Holt’s run didn’t springiness details connected the Liberal government’s presumption connected the Indigenous claims, but she has said she wants to rebuild spot betwixt the state and First Nations.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Oct. 23, 2024.