Mr. Speaker, the Nisga'a treaty gives 25% of the salmon returning to the Nass River to the Nisga'a. Four other bands are competing for access to that resource whose treaty claims have not been negotiated.
The Nisga'a treaty is a modern version of the 1760 treaty in Marshall that the supreme court ruled on. It is a much expanded version, by the way, in that it gives natives a priority right to fish.
Seeing that there is so much consternation in the House today I would like to ask the member to his knowledge what position have other parties taken with regard to the Nisga'a treaty, given its close proximity in relationship to the treaty we are discussing.