Jaime Battiste

• Liberal Nova Scotia MP fined $600 for breaching election financing law

  The elections law violations stem back six years, to a July 2019 candidate nomination contest in Sydney—Victoria that Battiste won.

  Canada

  Nov 6, 2025
  
• Jaime Battiste drops out of Liberal leadership race, backs Mark Carney

  Battiste, a Liberal MP from Nova Scotia, was the only Indigenous candidate in the running and sought to put First Nations issues on the agenda during the contest.

  Politics

  Jan 30, 2025
  
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• Indigenous MP from Nova Scotia submits application for Liberal leadership race

  Nova Scotia MP Jaime Battiste has joined the Liberal leadership race, confirming today that he has submitted the required documents and a $50,000 deposit to the federal party.

  Canada

  Jan 23, 2025
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• Chair of Liberal party’s Indigenous caucus says identity ‘complicated’ as members questioned

  Some want to know why Randy Boissonnault, who has claimed to be Cree, was touted as an Indigenous member of the party for years, and is now changing his tune.

  Politics

  Nov 15, 2024
• Mi’kmaw Nova Scotia MP says updated electoral map kicks him out of his own riding

  The proposed change for Sydney-Victoria was done without the consultation of its Indigenous constituents, said Jaime Battiste.

  Politics

  Jan 31, 2023
• Canada election results: Sydney—Victoria

  Sydney—Victoria has been a Liberal stronghold since the early 2000s.

  Canada

  May 13, 2021
• Second Indigenous-run lobster fishery opens in Nova Scotia on Treaty Day

  Nearly 300 people attended the ceremony to launch the boats loaded with lobster traps out onto the water.

  Canada

  Oct 1, 2020
• Mi’kmaw power, inside and beyond Ottawa, stronger than in past fishery battles

  'I wonder if they ever thought, 20 years ago, that they'd have two Mi'kmaw senators and a Mi'kmaw MP who could help influence and work with government to find a solution.'

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  Sep 27, 2020
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• First Mi’kmaw MP asks question in his language in House of Commons

  Jaime Battiste, Liberal MP for Sydney-Victoria, used his first statement in House to speak the Mi'kmaq language. 

  Canada

  Dec 13, 2019
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• Meet Jaime Battiste: Nova Scotia’s first Mi’kmaq member of Parliament

  The 40-year-old legal expert and Indigenous activist, elected as a Liberal in Cape Breton, seems poised to make a name for himself in federal politics.

  Politics

  Oct 22, 2019