Mr. Speaker, the hon. member has been in the Chamber tonight and he has listened to the to and fro of the debate. There has been a lot of discussion about the Nisga'a treaty and about the supreme court. These are two issues upon which we need to shed more light.
First of all, as was said earlier, the supreme court said in many of its earlier rulings that it does not see this as its job. The supreme court sees this as the job of the government. That is the first point.
The second point is that the Nisga'a treaty will bring consistency to that area of the west coast, to B.C. in particular. What we have now are inconsistencies. We do not have a modern day treaty. We are dependent upon supreme court judgments, which have caused serious confusion, and we have also had a lack of response from the government on this issue.
Would the member prefer a modern day treaty and consistency, or would he prefer that the supreme court deal with this so that we would have inconsistencies and a lack of response from the government? What is his feeling on that?