[AxeMan]

Originally Posted by flint

In your first post on this thread you blamed the natives and natives only. You targeted them as poachers. Now you are back peddleing and saying that whites are also to blame. The primary reason because of low fish densities is because of white commercial fishing. The only "natural" right that they have remaining is to hunt and fish. Now you and others what to take it away from them. Early voyagers, settlers, church and state had taken everything else.......their land, homes, childrens innocents, killed, raped and then placed on reserves. Let me remind you again that a recent court case was settled because childrens innocents were robbed from them by church and state------this is only the tip of the iceberb. Fishing and hunting for white's is a privilage and not our natural right.... this natural right belongs to the aboriginals. White's hunt for sport, and if they want or need meat then go to the white grocery stores. Stop complaining that the aboriginals have more then us and be greatful of what you have, that you can go hunting and fishing. I will always defend the aboriginals from ignorance. If there is no fish on the east coast then that is your problem, not the aboriginals....the fish belong to them!

Flint, actually you are wrong about the rights thing. The HUNTING, FISHING AND TRAPPING HERITAGE ACT Chapter H-15.5 gives me that RIGHT.

It is in the hunting regulations as well.

HUNTING, FISHING AND TRAPPING
HERITAGE ACT
Chapter H-15.5
(Assented to May 15, 2008)
Preamble
WHEREAS hunting, fishing and trapping have played
important roles in shaping Alberta’s social, cultural and
economic heritage;
WHEREAS hunters, anglers and trappers have made
important contributions to the understanding, conservation,
restoration and management of Alberta’s fish and wildlife
resources; and
WHEREAS the best traditions of hunting, fishing and
trapping should be valued by future generations:
THEREFORE HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and
consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as
follows:
Right to hunt and fish
1(1) A person has a right to hunt, fish and trap in accordance
with the law.
(2) The reference to the law in subsection (1) includes the
Wildlife Act, the Fisheries Act (Canada), the Migratory
Birds Convention Act, 1994 (Canada) and the
regulations made under those Acts.
Non-derogation of aboriginal rights
2 Nothing in this Act derogates from any aboriginal right to
hunt, fish or trap.