Mr. Speaker, recently the Indian affairs minister travelled to the Alexander reserve in Alberta and declared it as an ideal type of reserve and the way that reserves ought to operate.
I more recently went to the same reserve. I visited the homes of many grassroots natives. They were sitting on apple crates and tree stumps. Their homes do not have electricity or running water. There are holes in the roofs and there is poverty. There are third world conditions on these reserves and this government will not recognize it.
When is this government going to get out of its ivory tower and demand that the chiefs and councils be accountable to grassroots natives across this country?