New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is facing a growing backlash to his government s new policy on Indigenous land acknowledgments, and some of the opposition has come from within his own cabinet.
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The tax deals let First Nations keep 95 per cent of the provincial tax they collect at on-reserve retail outlets, including gas stations and convenience stores. Some will expire in 90 days and others will end next year.
Last year bands brought in tax amounts ranging from $17.6 million at Madawaska Maliseet First Nation to $230,000 at Tobique.
Premier Blaine Higgs calls the system unfair to non-Indigenous businesses and even unjust between First Nations that make a lot of money and those that make less.
Dunn suggested Tuesday that resource revenue-sharing agreements for forestry and mining signed in Ontario in 2018 were one example of a better way to go.
Tobique chief fires back at premier for saying tax deal created super wealthy reserves
Tobique First Nation Chief Ross Perley said Premier Blaine Higgs should be applauding Indigenous entrepreneurship instead of implying that a gas-tax-sharing agreement was unfair for some reserves.
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Tobique First Nation Chief Ross Perley said Premier Blaine Higgs should be proud of successful Indigenous-owned businesses, instead of trying to hold them back.(Jacques Poitras/CBC)
A First Nations chief whose reserve has seen only a tiny fraction of the total tax-sharing revenue in the province says he doesn t feel the system is unfair to his community.
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