Global News published this video item, entitled “Canada election: Atlantic fishers react to getting new Canadian fisheries minister” – below is their description.
After Fisheries, Oceans and Coast Guard Minister Bernadette Jordan failed to get re-elected Monday in the 2021 campaign, there’s hope her successor can help solve the ongoing Indigenous lobster fishing dispute in Nova Scotia.
Harvesters on both sides of the dispute blame Department of Fisheries and Oceans for not clarifying how indigenous and commercial fishers can make their living in these waters and do so peacefully.
As Ross Lord explains, no one wants to see a repeat of the violence that occurred last summer.
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Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.