The chief of Lac-Simon, Lucien Wabanonik, denounces this new delay. (File photo)
We are really disappointed, I would even say sometimes discouraged, by Quebec's stubbornness in always postponing their strategy on the caribou issue, says the leader of the Anishnabe community of Lac-Simon, Lucien Wabanonik, who assures that he is not part of partners having been consulted.
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It’s high time things changed. It’s as if we were waiting for the imminent death of these animals. Quebec is stretching the sauce, but perhaps that’s their strategy, that’s what we take away from it. It’s discouraging and sad at the same time, adds Lucien Wabanonik.
We were not consulted, so we are not considered a partner by the ministry, adds Henri Jacob, president of Action boréale.
On March 18, the federal Minister of the Environment, Steven Guilbeault, demanded a caribou protection strategy by May 1. Ottawa retains the right to intervene by emergency decree or by decree to protect the critical habitat of deer.
Seems like we just want to save time. A little announcement like that, to go and find six caribou, no plan with it and there it's not surprising that we are told that now we don't do it anymore, I would be curious to know who the partners they are consulted, adds Henri Jacob, who also believes that the federal government should intervene.