Mr. Speaker, first let us be clear that 90% of funding that comes through my department goes to First Nations for programs and services. Beyond that let us understand what the Reform Party is saying. It wants to cut money, it wants forensic audits, it wants to pit members in one community against each other. I will have none of it, none of it.
In the House of Commons on October 28th, 1998. See this statement in context.