Mr. Speaker, other than the partisan ending to the member's speech virtually everything said is something we subscribe to. As long as the treaties are done right in terms of content, what the member is saying is absolutely correct. We do need to define aboriginal rights and we do need to solve the problems of uncertainty.
There was an earlier reference to the Charlottetown accord. Of any identifiable ethnic or racial group in Canada, once the voting was over on the Charlottetown referendum the natives on reserves more than any other group resoundingly defeated the Charlottetown accord in the referendum. We need to remember that because I do not believe that is in the public consciousness. There are some important reasons why that happened which I am certainly sensitive to. I am not sure everyone in the House is sensitive to those reasons.
There is a 31-member treaty negotiation advisory committee. One of its members was referred to in the previous member's speech, the member from the council of forest industries. Many of the members of that treaty negotiation advisory committee and also some of the members of the regional advisory committees who were referred to by several speakers are the biggest critics of the status quo process. It is important to recognize those items.