Madam Speaker, any time an aboriginal community tries to create an economic development opportunity for themselves it becomes a win-lose for the Reform Party.
I see the Musqueam issue as a win-win in the sense that first nations people will make economic benefit from this legally binding contract. I do not know what the Reform Party would like to see the Government of Canada do. If its members would give us their position on that particular file, if they would like us to subsidize the first nations to the tune of $7 million to deal with it, I would be prepared to look at it. So far all the Reform Party is doing is running at aboriginal people but not giving us solutions as to how we deal with the situation.
The Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and I will be setting up a number of tables. Those tables will be like any other negotiation that we have done in B.C. or across the country, as I have mentioned earlier. We will sit down with the people, the chiefs of the Atlantic region and other interest groups, and we will then come up with a resolution as to how best to proceed with the treaty right confirmed by the court.
That will not happen tomorrow, next week or the week after. We will set up these tables and we will work through it over the winter. We hope that in the short term, which is in the next year, we will have some solutions to the issues. That is how it will be done. It is not the simplistic view of some members opposite that we should just go out there and ask people to break the law or change the law because we do not like the results of what the courts have ruled.