On Monday March 9, 2015, a fishing trial began outside a Vancouver Court House. With the lack of Nation-to-Nation relationships between the First Nation and the Canadian Government, disputes – in this case fishing disputes – must be handled by the provincial courts, even when the provincial court overrides the decisions by the Supreme Court of Canada. Read the rest here 16:10
NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?
While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here
The intro here give credences to a backward or a Backwoods Governance. A Government Agency out weighs the Judicial Branch? So who writes and enforces the Laws? Is there a “Balance of POWER”? Is there a CANADIAN “CONSTITUTION” or fact similarly there of? Are there rules established through “of the PEOPLE