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Posted: May 25, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: May 25 RCMP officers stand on the wharf in Saulnierville, N.S., in front of supporters of a Mi kmaw fishery on Sept. 20, 2020.(Jeorge Sadi/CBC) A top RCMP officer requested help to pay for extra policing costs during last fall s fisheries dispute in southwest Nova Scotia, but the province s justice minister resisted for two weeks and only agreed after two lobster pounds holding Mi kmaw catch were vandalized, with one later burned to the ground. The details of the financial dispute between the province and Mounties are contained in records, newly released to CBC under provincial freedom-of-information laws, that shed light on the overtime and expenses related to pulling in officers from the rest of Atlantic Canada to help police the area. ....