Mr. Speaker, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples has just announced that it is delaying for the second time the release of its final report. This report, which has already cost $58 million, will not be available until early in 1996. Aboriginal people faced with overwhelming poverty, unprecedented unemployment and suicide rates, and housing conditions which bring shame on Canada around the world, do not need additional studies.
While the commission studies the issues to death, the government makes piecemeal decisions or defers them until the commission submits its report, which will only state the obvious.
The $58 million would have been better used to build 1,000 houses. The minister should take action and give Natives the funds essential to their future, which a royal commission is now wasting.