Mr. Speaker, my question is also for the Minister of Indian Affairs.
The document signed by Deputy Minister Jack Stagg, which all the media reported on this morning, recommends that the government pay money to the aboriginal communities in Quebec, in return for their support for the federalist side in the last referendum, and also, in the words of the deputy minister himself, to buy their silence while the federal government tables constitutional proposals to satisfy Quebec.
Since the media all reported on this document, I ask the minister if he bothered to summon this person, who is not just anybody, but the person responsible for his department's strategic directions and policies. Has he since summoned his deputy minister to find out if he did in fact write this memo?