Mr. Speaker, in granting me an absolute discharge for participating in a protest fishery, B.C. provincial court judge Howie Thomas has served notice that the courts will not enforce the minister's program of racially based commercial fisheries.
Judge Thomas was not making it up as he went along. He was guided by recent decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada.
In the face of last Friday's decision, will the government abandon its policy of racially based commercial fisheries?