Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Deputy Prime Minister.
Despite appeals from the Government of Quebec, the Kanesatake Band Council has continued the work to expand the Indian cemetery. In a letter to his federal counterpart, the Quebec Minister of Native Affairs, Mr. Sirros, asks the federal government to begin negotiations quickly with the Kanesatake Band Council.
As trustee, did the federal government intervene directly with the Kanesatake Band Council to convince it to stop the work and to return to the negotiating table or are we to understand instead that Chief Jerry Peltier still refuses to return to the negotiating table?