Dear Millbrook First Nation Band Members

After having successfully served my first term on council from 2020–2024 I am honoured to have been nominated again to stand as a Councillor in the Millbrook FN election on February 29, 2024.

My name is Chris Daniel Googoo Sr. My wife Sherry Googoo and I have been married for 26 years. We have a wonderful son, a daughter, and four grandchildren. I was previously employed by the Millbrook Band Office for 19 years as a carpenter and foreman to build houses for community members. I then started my own construction company – Quality Build Construction – which employs five full-time employees that are all community and band members.

In 2019 I opened my cannabis dispensary – the High-Grade Smoke Shop & Trading Post. High Grade currently employs 21 community and band members full-time. As Mi’kmaq people we have a sovereign and inherent right to hunt and fish and to live from our own economy on our own terms. Our people made peace and friendship treaties with the Crown, but we have never surrendered our homelands or any of our rights as a sovereign people. Our Aboriginal and Treaty rights are protected under Sections 25 and 35 of Canada’s Constitution Act, and all government bodies – including the Band Council – must uphold and respect these rights. 

I hunt, fish and sell cannabis as a sovereign person on the sovereign lands of my ancestors, and I will stand up and fight for any of our people that does the same.

The Youth, Adults, and our Elders are what makes our community as a whole. I will continue to support all of our members equally, and in a non-biased manner. As your councillor I will be working for you, the people, of Millbrook First Nation. I will continue to work with the Chief and Council, to making positive decisions that are beneficial to our community and members.

I am honest and approachable. I know how to run a business, and I will not breach any fiduciary responsibilities to our community and our nation. I will continue to put the interests of all of our members first because “All Millbrook Voices Matter” – the youth, the adults and the elders, from Millbrook, Nfld, Sheet Harbour, Beaver Dam and Cole Harbour. 

I look forward to hearing from you. Call me at 902-814-1752 or email chrisgoogoosr@icloud.com if you have any questions!