Tag Archives: Skeena – Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen
Fishermen’s union takes fight to Minister Tootoo, story and video
The United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union is hoping residents of Prince Rupert can dust off their pens, stamps and notebooks and put them to good use in the coming days. The union (UFAWU-Unifor) was hard at work last fall, rallying North Coast MLA Jennifer Rice, Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen, the City of Prince Rupert and the District of Port Edward to support them after ), a division of the Jim Pattison Group announced the closure of salmon canning operations at its Oceanside Plant. While they received sympathetic voices in all those representatives, mayors and council members, UFAWU is taking the fight federally. Read the article here 12:08
Cullen to ‘take a run’ at Canfisco fishing licences
From the article: Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen was on his way to Paris this week for the COP21 Paris International Climate Conference, but before he left, he mentioned a plan of action to help the Rupert workers try and regain gainful employment canning salmon. “I want to take a run at these fish licences. I don’t believe it’s right – we’re issuing licences to catch fish with no conditions at all and those fish are now being moved off to China and everywhere else for processing,” said Cullen last week. Read the article here 13:09
Government ‘hell bent’ on destroying commercial fishery, says Skeena – Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen.
The Northern View – “The Federal Government seems hell bent on getting rid of the commercial fishery… This appears to be the way of killing the fishery, death of 1,000 cuts,” he said, adding that the fishery doesn’t appear to be on the government’s radar. “Salmon simply aren’t the priority for this government. Pipelines are. We have an unwilling and unintelligent government right now and I can’t think of a lower priority for this government right now.” continued
