Mr. Speaker, when I took over this ministry I found that the Conservative government had acquired over 80 pieces of property including 57 houses in the area to which my hon. friend refers. I have had four or five meetings with the chief of the First Nations to encourage him to take over the property. As of now it has not been taken over. There is a serious concern by the chief that if he takes it over he cannot properly administer it by allocating some type of point system.
What has happened is that the houses have been taken over by other people who should not be in there. Until I solve that multimillion dollar problem I have been trying to solve I cannot go to the other side of highway 344.