The government was so good it could even break up CAM. All the Band Councils worked together but the government broke it up, going after one Band Council at a time and offering them money. When they all worked together, no government was able to do that.

We can’t find unity with other Innu any more and now suddenly the negotiations have closed.

You have to work on many fronts – even civil disobedience.

I look at the experience of the people from Labrador and most governments, Quebec or Labrador, they don’t have the same type of history or relationship which Quebec has with its native people. The same with Newfoundland and Labrador. They don’t necessarily have the same approach. We are both the same people, we are both Montagnais, we eat the same food, speak the same language. Governments have different priorities. Now with all these protests in Labrador, somehow the government decided to give something back to the Innu. They are literally throwing things to the Innu in some sort of redress or giving back something and they almost get whatever they want. It’s like a baby – we give something to the baby because it yells and at some time the baby shuts up. So it’s the same thing nowadays – the Labrador Innu are like their mouths are covered. They can’t say anything because the Labrador government puts something into the mouth of the Labrador Innu. Quebec doesn’t have the same approach to its native people, because we are still speaking up about the injustices which are happening in our homeland. But we don’t hear as much from Labrador as we used to because the government has decided to shut them up – with mining programmes or whatever.