Indigenous peoples are rejecting the CAQ government’s offer of compromise on forestry reform, citing the Legault government’s expected reshuffle on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador (AFNQL) called for the outright withdrawal of Bill 97.

While blockades were sporadically taking place on Atikamekw territory, Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry Maïté Blanchette Vézina was still proposing last week that the AFNQL co-draft amendments to the bill with the ministry’s team of lawyers.

“There is no guarantee that the First Nations’ proposals would be incorporated into a significantly amended version of Bill 97,” the AFNQL wrote in a statement released on Tuesday.

The draft legislation aims, among other things, to establish “priority forest management zo

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