Mr. Speaker, when you look into this instance in its entirety I know you will review all the discussions.
This question affects not only the hon. member for Wild Rose but many of us who have bands in our ridings—and in my case I have over 20 of them—that face similar problems.
We should look at the privileges of a member of Parliament with regard to the Access to Information Act and other problems. The minister says that information cannot be given out without the consent of chief and council, and the chief and council are the ones the aboriginal people with whom I deal want me to investigate.
Look at the dilemma the member for Wild Rose and I are in. The access to information people are now at the point where they will have to proceed to court to try to get this stuff, because the member of Parliament cannot represent the people who sent him here.
The chief and council, the very ones grassroots aboriginal people have come to me for help on because they have a problem with them, are told they cannot get the information because it is the chief. But it is the chief who is the problem. What are we to do?