Madam Speaker, I am not going to get into a long diatribe of rhetoric as the hon. minister put forth today against the Reform Party. The Liberal government does not have a monopoly on caring and compassion nor a monopoly on stupidity.
The goal we have today is shared by the minister and by every person in the House. Each and every one of us wants to ensure aboriginal people, particularly those who as the minister referred to are the poorest of the poor, are able to stand on their own two feet, and that we are able to decrease the terrible parameters of rape, sexual abuse, crime and violence that occurs within their societies.
I was going to ask the hon. member a question, but he has departed.