While Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador launched formal negotiations on Churchill Falls about 10 months ago, there still hasn’t been any consultation with the Innu Nation.
Any attempt to develop the Gull Island hydroelectric project is dead on arrival without first resolving a billion-dollar dispute over Muskrat Falls revenues, says a lead negotiator with the Innu Nation.
The Innu of Labrador do not have a modern treaty that would allow them to take back control over their own lives. Is it the missing piece to solving long-rooted problems?
In the wake of the massive Muskrat Falls bailout, the Innu Nation is suing the federal and Newfoundland and Labrador governments in an attempt to protect benefits the nation negotiated from being wiped out.