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Talks set for Brokenhead lift threat of blockade
Conservation Minister Bill Blaikie says he’s arranged to meet with the chief and council from the Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, and the looming Labour Day blockade of the Whiteshell Provincial Park has been lifted.
Blaikie said he spoke to Brokenhead chief Debra Chief this morning and the two agreed to meet at Brokenhead Monday morning to discuss the dispute over sacred Aboriginal land in the Whiteshell that prompted Brokenhead to threaten a blockade for the coming long weekend.
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"The threat of a blockade has been lifted and we hope at the meeting Monday morning we can have a meeting of the minds and come out of there with an agreement as to how the concerns they have about the sacred sites in the Whiteshell can be dealt with," Blaikie told the Free Press this afternoon.
"Im confident when we sit down around the table at Brokenhead on Monday morning that we’ll be able to work something out that will mean the blockade will stay lifted," Blaikie said.
Brokenhead councillor Paul Chief said Monday the Aboriginal community was frustrated with what he said was the province’s abrupt and arbitrary move to disregard the band’s request to select the four parcels, considered sacred Aboriginal sites, and would block public access to the park for the Labour Day weekend as a means to make the public aware of the dispute.
Blaikie would not say if the province is prepared to enter some sort of co-management agreement with Brokenhead on the four parcels of land in the Whiteshell, adding he’s confident the province can work with Brokenhead to protect the sites in Whiteshell.
"I don’t want to pre-judge the outcome of the meeting but certainly we’ll go into it, and I know they will too, with a view trying to address some of the concerns they have."
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