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Me’ Taloltioq

Welcome to Listuguj.  As a First Nation government, we are working towards a vision for Listuguj that is rooted in our history and our distinct Mi’gmaq culture and heritage.  Today, we face many challenges; however, our community spirit is alive and strong.

We continue to fight for the recognition and respect of our Aboriginal and Treaty rights; we are working towards our financial autonomy through community economic operations; and we are fostering alliances with other First Nations, provincial and federal governments.

We are proud of what we have accomplished thus far as a community, as a government, and as Mi’gmaq who have lived in this territory for generations.

Vision

We, the Listuguj Mi’gmaq Government (LMG), strongly believe in our culture and tradition, our Aboriginal and Treaty rights, and most of all, our People. Through good Mi’gmaq government, we believe that consistent progress can be achieved toward fulfilling our Vision.

Our Vision is to foster and revitalize our way of life with, and for, our People, as described below:

  • To practice, revitalize, and encourage, through a traditional learning environment, our Mi’gmaq identity including its spirituality, culture, values, language, and traditions; and to share this knowledge with our surrounding brothers and sisters.
  • To be personally responsible for a stable, loving family life within a strong community, and to serve as constant role model; to maintain personal peace and harmony.
  • To protect our rivers, lakes, land, forests, and wildlife, while at the same time managing our activities consistent with our environmental values; to maintain a healthy natural environment.
  • To assure justice for all, and to maintain a justice system consistent with our Mi’gmaq culture.
  • To provide quality health, social, and educational facilities, as well as services for those most in need.
  • To encourage an open-minded attitude and positive community spirit by nourishing healthy, cultural, spiritual family units; to maintain peace, order and harmony within the community.
  • To govern in a democratic, consensual manner consistent with Mi’gmaq culture and governing institutions, and to freely exercise our inter-governmental relations with other governments.
  • To live and celebrate our Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and enjoy the recognition of these Rights, both internally and externally.
  • To uphold our own Mi’gmaq education system, one that is designed, managed, and delivered by us, in accordance with our culture and First Nation needs.
  • To create and manage our own vibrant, self-sustaining economy promoting long-term employment for our people.
Leadership

Listuguj Mi’gmaq Government

The Chief and Council are the elected officials of the Band, under Section 74 of the Indian Act. One Chief and twelve Councilors are elected by band members in elections, which are held every two years. Quorum is set at seven people.

Elders’ Representative to the LMG Chief and Council

In recognition of the role that Elders have in our community, the Listuguj Mi’gmaq Government Council has a seat at the Council table for an Elder. The Listuguj Elders’ Council, through consensus, nominates an Elder to participate at the regular Council meetings as an ex officio member. At meetings, an Elder provides guidance to issues and community concerns by sharing cultural knowledge and wisdom.

Government

The Listuguj Mi’gmaq Government (LMG) is comprised of eight Directorates, which provide for all community programming and services under the management and direction of the elected Chief and 12 Members of Council. The LMG Directorates include:

  • Administration
  • Capital and Infrastructure
  • Finance
  • Listuguj Community Health Services
  • Listuguj Community Social Services
  • Listuguj Education Directorate
  • Natural Resources; and
  • Public Security.

Under each of these Directorates there are numerous programs and services, which can be explored on this, the LMG Website.  Each Directorate reports directly to the CEO who in turn reports to the Chief and Council.  The LMG is committed to providing as much employment as possible to Listuguj community members.

Alliances

The Listuguj Mi’gmaq Government has alliances with organizations and political bodies at the local, regional, and national levels.  It is by working together that we may advance the collective interests of our People.

In Listuguj

  • Gespe’gewaq Mi’gmaq Resource Council (GMRC)
  • Gignu Youth re-adaptation Centre Home  Centre Jeunesse
  • Listuguj Mi’gmaq Development Centre (LMDC)
  • Mawol’tijig Mi’ju’ajijg (Child Care Centre)
  • Mi’gmawei Mawiomi Secretariat (MMS)
  • Listuguj Pointe-à-la-Croix Economic Development Corporation Inc. (LPALC)
  • Listuguj Public Works Infrastructure Inc.
  • Listuguj Continuing Care Inc.

Regional

  • Assembly of the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador (AFNQL)
  • Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat (APCFNC)
  • First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Economic Development Commission, Inc. (FNQLEDC, Inc.)
  • First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission (FNQLHSSC)
  • Secretariat aux Affaires Autochtonnes (SAA)
  • Tewatohnhi’saktha

National

  • Aboriginal Financial Officers Association (AFOA)
  • Assembly of First Nations (AFN)
  • National Centre for First Nations Governance (NCFNG)
Working Conditions

Chief and Council Working Conditions 2020-2022

On November 25, 2020, the newly elected Chief and Council conducted their first Duly Convened meeting.  One of the priority of discussions was Council-working conditions.  Chief and Council consider it necessary to establish a framework of working conditions applicable to Councillors currently in office during their term from November 2020 ending at the next general elections.  

Councillors had the opportunity of opting for a two-year contract, which ends at the end of their mandate in November 2022.  The purpose of the Working Conditions for Councillors is to provide political support on various governance issues and files.

During the councillors’ working contracts, they must complete the following:

• Councillors must have regular office hours and be reasonably available on an “on-call” basis, no less than 35hours a week
• Councillors who hold an assignment must submit a weekly activity report to the Office of Chief and Council
• Councillors must provide regular reports to Council
• Council must provide regular reporting to the Community
• Workplans must be developed for the files they are working on and submitted


Working conditions for Councillors are not requirements of all council.  Should a councillor wish to select the two-year contract and commit fulltime, the opportunity is there.

Working Files/Responsibility

Full-Time Council Working Files:
Chief Darcy Gray
  • Moose Harvesting Protocol
  • Relationship Building throughout Mi’gma’gi
  • Police Negotiations with Public Security (Completed)
  • GMRC Board of Directors
  • APC Executive Committee
  • APC Finance and Audit Committee
  • Mi’gmawei Mawiomi Chair
  • Mi’gmawei Mawiomi Chiefs Executive Committee
  • Enhancement Agreement Negotiations
  • Enhancement Committee
  • FN National Fisheries Committee/AFQNL Fisheries Portfolio Holder
  • AFNQL Fisheries Portfolio Holder
  • FNEC Chiefs Committee
  • AFN Cannabis Committee
  • AFNQL CCP Funding Negotiations team
  • Listuguj Economic Recovery Task Force
  • Various Negotiation Teams and Committees
Councillor Ali Barnaby
  • Human Resource Committee
  • Customary Election Code
  • Membership Bill-S3
  • Mi’gmawei Mawiomi Secretariat, Steering Technical Committee
  • Restigouche River Watershed
  • Communications Policy
  • Engagement Policy
  • Communication Strategy for Council
  • Intergovernmental Affairs/Relationship Building
  • Access to New Brunswick
  • Point of Sale Taxation
  • Renaming of Squaw Cap
  • Hydro Quebec
Councillor Brian Caplin Jr.
  • Customary Election Code
  • Moose Harvesting Protocol
  • Relationship Building Through Mi’gma’gi
  • Listuguj Finance and Audit Committee
  • Enhancement Agreement
  • Negotiations Enhancement Committee
  • AFN Chiefs Cannabis Committee
  • AFNQL Cannabis Portfolio Holder
  • AFNQL CCP Funding Negotiation Committee
  • Listuguj Economic Recovery Task Force
  • Healing Lodge and Turtle Lodge
  • Vacation Lots (MMS)
  • Tourism Committee (Battle of Restigouche)
  • Point of Sale Taxation (NB – QC)
  • Investment Committee
  • Campbellton and Pointe-à-la-Croix Relations
  • Economic Development
  • Elders
  • Housing
  • Business Projects
  • Team Building
Councillor Chad Gedeon
  • Ad Hoc Human Resource Committee Hiring of CEO (Completed)
  • Hydrocarbon Consultation Negotiations MMS
  • Mi’gmaq Revitalization Project
  • Healing Lodge (Turtle Lodge)/ Culture
  • Finance Signing Authority
  • LMDC Board of Directors
  • MMS Finance Committee
  • Vacations Lots (MMS)
  • Language Committee
  • Tourism Committee (Battle of Restigouche)
  • Harmony Committee
  • Healing Arbour
  • Kedgewick Territorial Recognition
  • Manage feedback@listuguj.ca
  • Human Resource Committee
  • Finance and Audit Committee
Councillor Sky Metallic
  • Mi’gmawei Mawiomi Secretariat, Steering Technical Committee

  • Forestry Negotiation File for Natural Resources

  • Investment Committee

  • Finance Signing Authority

  • Policing Negotiations with Public Security (Completed)

  • Campbellton and Pointe-à-la-Croix Relations

  • Hydro Quebec

  • Moose Hunting Protocol

  • Fisheries (Negotiations Lobster and Snow Crab)

  • JC Van Horne Bridge Project

  • Revenue

  • HR Policy Committee

  • Restigouche River Watershed

  • Membership (Bill S-3)

  • Community Judicial System

Councillor Alexander Morrison 
  • Cannabis Strategy
  • Consultation and Accommodation
  • Listuguj Gaming Commission
  • Customary Election Code
  • AFNQL Cannabis Portfolio Holder
  • Forestry Negotiations for Natural Resources
  • Mi’gmawei Mawiomi Secretariat, Steering Technical Committee
  • Fisheries Negotiations for Lobster and Snow Crab
  • Membership (Bill-S-3)
  • Economic Development
  • Elders
  • Alliance with Traditional Government
  • Consultation and Accommodation
Part-Time Council Working Files:
As indicated in the Councillor Working Conditions, Councillors can opt for a Part-Time Council option. They are placed on assignments on a part-time basis, which will occupy and increase their duties and responsibilities to the LMG’s Council.

Councillor Kevin Methot

Zenabis Relations
Public Security
Restigouche River Watershed

Councillors
The remaining council members did not opt for the Council Working Conditions; as a result, they will receive a monthly Honorarium for their participation in meetings identified by the Office of Chief and Council, however they participate in other files/committees:

Councillor Sheila Swasson

Finance and Audit Committee

Councillor Gordon Isaac Jr.

Housing
Rangers
Public Works

Councillor Dr. Cathy Martin

Mi’gmawei Mawiomi Secretariat, Steering Technical Committee

Councillor Annette Barnaby

LMDC Board of Directors

Councillor Wendell Metallic

Intergovernmental Relations through the Office of Chief and Council
Economic Development
Commercial Fisheries

Councillor George Martin

Native Para-Judicial Society Quebec Board of Directors
Listuguj Economic Recovery Task Force
Public Security

Contact Us

17 Riverside Drive West
Listuguj, Quebec

Phone: (418) 788-2136
Fax: (418) 788- 2058

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