Mr. Speaker, today is a sad day for the individual rights of aboriginal people in Canada. The Nisga'a agreement fails to provide Nisga'a people with private property rights, fails to provide Nisga'a women with the same rights and protections enjoyed by all other Canadian women and puts in peril the charter rights of each and every Nisga'a individual.
How can the government and the minister ignore the fundamental rights of aboriginal Canadians?