Mr. Speaker, that is a difficult question about one of the most serious problems we have in Canada.
It is so sad in a nation as rich as ours that we see day in and day out a loss of aboriginal children by fire. We see suicides. We saw them recently right across the country.
I have seen the houses; they are firetraps. I have seen the lack of economic opportunity. At the same time I have seen successful businesses, aboriginal doctors, aboriginal lawyers, aboriginal teachers and great aboriginal leaders. They are saying one thing to us, that we should get rid of or dismantle the Department of Indian Affairs.
As a consequence I have asked aboriginal leaders or chiefs in Manitoba to do so in the province of Manitoba. It will be the lead province to dismantle Indian Affairs. Hopefully it will be the model for the rest of the country.
I know my hon. friend from Churchill will be in the lead because it is time to bring, in the words of the Prime Minister, dignity, honour, self-reliance, self-government to a people who are held, not necessarily embodied, certainly as supplicants under an archaic act. It is time to press on.