Mr. Speaker, even though the Liberal member who just spoke has a lot of support for his comments from the Conservative Party behind me, that does not mean to say that he is correct. When he said that the aboriginal fishing strategy of British Columbia was a direct result of the efforts by the government to try to enact the provisions of the Sparrow decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, he is just plain wrong, as was the judge in the R. v Houvinen case, which was recently ruled on by the British Columbia supreme court.
The Sparrow decision of the Supreme Court of Canada expressly refused to deal with the native commercial fishery. That was left for subsequent cases, namely Gladstone, Vanderpeet and NTC Smokehouse.