Minister of Fisheries Joanne Thompson rises during question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Dec. 2, 2025. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
The federal government says it is proposing to reissue fishing licences to a coalition of Mi’kmaw First Nations in Atlantic Canada, despite objections from Inuit in Nunavut.
In 2021, Inuit sued the federal government over its decision to hand over a sizable portion of fishing licences off Nunavut’s coast to the First Nations coalition, after the coalition purchased half of Clearwater Foods earlier that year.
