Listen to your own words. No wonder members of the Reform Party are groaning. They cannot stand to listen to their own words: "I will not accept the popular myth spread by certain self-serving interests that the encroachment of European settlers constituted an injustice against aboriginal people here or anywhere else in Canada". That was said by the member for Athabasca on April 25 in the House.
I wish the Reform Party would read the recent report of the Canadian Human Rights Commission in which it says that the plight of native Canadians is by far the most serious human rights problem in Canada. It continues that the failure-and I see it here tonight with the Reform Party-to achieve a more global solution can only continue to tarnish Canada's reputation and accomplishments.
Last week I was sitting here with some Liberals and I heard a Reform member say: "Indians are lazy. They live in south sea islands and periodically"-