Mr. Speaker, the problem is there is a more disturbing pattern developing here.
The minister said there was only one case when he knows full well that there are at least two that have been documented on the floor of the House of Commons. Rita Galloway, the president of the first nations coalition for accountability, says this kind of thing happens all the time.
It is not good enough for a government to just sit there and say we are looking into it, we hope this one isolated case goes away. It will not go away. Aboriginals are feeling betrayed by the government, by Indian affairs and by the minister himself.
Are these betrayals that grassroots Indians feel part of this new partnership the department is bragging about?