Mr. Speaker, the federal government has just appointed a negotiator in the person of lawyer Michel Robert for the very purpose of negotiating an end to this situation.
But on these issues, all sorts of opinions must be taken into consideration, including Daniel Turp's; speaking on self-determination for native people, he said to the Quebec National Assembly: "In my opinion, the fact that the natives are a people, that they consider themselves to be a people gives them a right to self-determination in the same way as Quebec".
Of course, when we consider the issue of self-determination for native people, we must consider not only the opinions of negotiators in this context but also those of the Bloc Quebecois's advisers.