Madam Speaker, I am interested in the member's comments. I would be interested in knowing what he thought of the Kelowna accord.
When he talks about all parties and stakeholders coming together, that in fact did happen. Paul Martin did a fabulous job in bringing first nations, aboriginal peoples, and many different stakeholders together in Kelowna. They came up with a multi-billion dollar agreement that would have resolved many of the issues we face here today. Yet one of the first actions his government took was to get rid of the Kelowna accord.
Does the member not recognize that the Kelowna accord would have done far more for our first nations people than this government has done in the last number of years, in which--