Mr. Chair, even today we were discussing how we were going to move forward in terms of moving current legislation. I think the struggle for all of us is to understand the ramifications of moving something like this through the United Nations and how that will impact even current negotiations and the current attempts to rectify past wrongs.
We've seen the issue of the residential schools being rectified through that. I shouldn't say rectified; there have been attempts made to recognize the pain and suffering that was inflicted on aboriginal people. Canada has stepped up to the plate, I think, and taken responsibility for many past wrongs, and recognized that there have been past wrongs. But I'm not certain that moving with this motion is going to do it or that concurring with the United Nations on this effort will do anything to rectify past wrongs here in Canada, because we, as Canadians, have taken other measures in the context of our own realities.
I think every country that is part of the United Nations has different concerns and different circumstances relating to their indigenous people. I know there are similarities, but even across this country of Canada, we have different realities from one end to the other. So I don't think there's something that all nations can sign on to that's going to rectify or correctly address the concerns that aboriginal people have here in Canada.