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New Brunswick government and First Nations chiefs to negotiate new tax agreements
June 29, 2021
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FREDERICTON-The New Brunswick government and six Mi’kmaq First Nations have agreed to attempt to settle out of court issues related to terminated tax agreements.
The chiefs had launched legal action, but in a news release Tuesday, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Arlene Dunn says the province and the six First Nations and their chiefs jointly presented the court with a consent order setting out the commitment to negotiate.
In April, the chiefs said the province’s decision not to renew existing tax collection agreements was an insult and a crushing attack on their economic viability.
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Speaking to reporters Tuesday, New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs said he hopes to have more discussion with Indigenous people in the province around the issue of residential schools and day schools.(Ed Hunter/CBC)
The Higgs government has made a vague commitment to get to the bottom of what happened at government-run schools for Indigenous children in New Brunswick.
Premier Blaine Higgs and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Arlene Dunn both say they want to help find out more about the schools and hope that other disagreements with First Nations won t get in the way of that historical reckoning.