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But with respect to the agreements themselves, there are actually legal provisions within those commercial arrangements that dictate the time frames and that termination notice needed to be sent out when it was sent out.
Earlier this month, Premier Blaine Higgs announced his government would be pulling out of tax-sharing agreements with 13 Mi kmaq and Wolastoqey First Nations.
In place since 1994, those agreements fuelled economic growth in some Indigenous communities by allowing First Nations to keep 95 per cent of on-reserve gas tax revenue up to $8 million and 70 per cent of amounts beyond that.
The Grey Rock Power Centre in Madawaska is one of several First Nation truck stops in New Brunswick covered by tax sharing agreements with the province.(Julia Wright / CBC)
An agreement negotiated by the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation and the Canadian government April 13 has become the largest compensatory land settlement in the country’s history. The Ministry of Crown-Indigenous Relations has agreed to pay $145 million to the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation after Canadian courts ruled that a specific…
Des Premières Nations pourraient cesser de percevoir les taxes si Blaine Higgs persiste à leur couper les vivres acadienouvelle.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from acadienouvelle.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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