Madam Speaker, we have been hearing a lot of words over there about how the government will try to work to effect a compromise between aboriginal and non-aboriginal fishermen on the east coast. For the benefit of those listening or watching the debate tonight, I would like them to know that this is the same minister, when push came to shove on the Musqueam reserve, who sent eviction notices to all non-aboriginal leaseholders on that reserve because the insensitive and belligerent chief of the Musqueam insisted that be done.
Could the minister tell us what comfort the fishermen on the east coast can take by his words and those of the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans when this is the kind of action we have seen from the government consistently, time after time, when it has come down to an issue between aboriginal and non-aboriginal rights?