In response to the parliamentary secretary, I think this point has to be well taken, that this bill would not be discussed in Parliament if it dealt with his part of the world. It would be discussed in Queen's Park. That's the point I was trying to deliver here.
As northerners, our laws are being made for us here in this arena. These laws should really be in the hands of northerners. By all Canadian standards, by all understanding of what Canadian citizenship and political rights are, there should be respect for the position of northerners on these laws. The northerners have agreed, the Nunavut people have agreed on moving forward with this legislation, but their point of view should be the predominant point of view that's used to make this legislation work, not the position of the government. That should be the guiding ideology. That is clearly stated in the Conservatives' northern strategy. They want to provide a changing nature of governance for the north, and here they're not doing it. They're not respecting it. I simply wanted to make that point very strongly right now. As a person who represents a territorial reach, one that doesn't have first-class political rights, I will continue to make that point. I continue to—