Mr. Speaker, I have a question for the member. He accuses others of having double standards. Yet he is against equity, the purpose of which is to ensure as much as possible that the double standards that exist are rectified.
The member is beginning to understand a little. In another 120 years, to use an expression he used, his party should have it down pat.
The member said in previous remarks as well that he and his colleagues have travelled around the country and know very well what is going on. Is he aware of an article on today's Cornwall Standard Freeholder in which the Grand Chief of the Akwasasne community in my riding talked about the extensive travel of the member across the way: ``Three Reform Party MPs who toured Akwasasne Wednesday to check out smugglers alley should be arrested for trespassing, says the furious Grand Chief Russell Roundpoint''. He identifies the members for Calgary Northeast, Wild Rose and Fraser Valley West.
I wonder if the member is familiar with that and what some people think of his travel plans. Does he not think that when he does those kinds of activities he just bragged about that the least he could do is have the courtesy of informing the local elected officials, and I am thinking here of the Grand Chief of Akwasasne?
There is a perception of insulting the community by the failure of members to do so, and showing disrespect for the minority and also to stereotyping them as all being part of an illegal activity. If he does not want to give that perception, will he at least tell us now that the failure on his part and that of his colleagues to show that kind of respect was wrong and will he apologize to my constituents who live in Akwasasne?