Sipekne'katik Spent More Than $500K on Now-abandoned Treaty Rights Lawsuit
A First Nation in central Nova Scotia that took the federal government to court over the contentious lobster fishery the band conducts outside the commercial season says it abandoned its lawsuit earlier this year in part due to litigation costs that had mounted to $572,073.
The figure is contained in an affidavit from Sipekne'katik First Nation's executive director of administration, Stuart Knockwood, filed in Nova Scotia Supreme Court last week, and which indicates the expense of pursuing the case was pulling money away from other programs...
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