Madam Speaker, I have two quick questions for my friend.
The first question is when we heard the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development make his intervention, he suggested that aboriginal people had been denied access to resources. My experience in British Columbia is that that is not the case. Could the member elaborate on what the aboriginal participation is in the regular commercial fishery in British Columbia?
The second question is a genuine question. Can the member explain to the House and Canadians what the aboriginal experience is on the east coast with respect to the lobster fishery? Is this fishery a traditional fishery that existed prior to European contact and colonization? Was there a reliance on lobsters by the Mi'kmaq Indians as a part of their culture and as a part of their subsistence prior to Europeans coming to North America?