Mr. Speaker, on Friday Bloc members questioned the Minister of Indian Affairs on the paternalistic and disdainful attitude and intentions toward aboriginal people shown in a memorandum written by his assistant deputy minister.
In his reply, the minister launched into a full scale attack on sovereignists and on the government of all of the people of Quebec.
While refusing to be answerable for the inappropriate suggestions of his assistant deputy minister about buying off the aboriginal people, the minister launched into an attack on Quebec which was remarkable for its exaggerations and inaccuracies. He even said that I had been kidnapped by the Mohawks. What a pitiful performance, and what disdain for the democratic system, coming from a minister of the crown.