In question period today you were asked a couple of questions about the Site C dam in British Columbia and the consultation process around that.
One of your answers included, “Without that consultation, no energy projects will be approved. We do not repeat failed ways; we look for better ones.” You said in your second answer that “this government has done whatever it can to send the signals to indigenous communities across the country that this will be a new era on meaningful nation-to-nation consultations with indigenous peoples.” Yet a delegation of indigenous peoples who have been active on the Site C file, who have been part of a camp there, were here last week, and they couldn't get a meeting with any of the government on this. What kind of signal is that sending?