Mr. Speaker, the truth really hurts in this place when we start speaking the truth or reading some of their own documents back to them. I think I have been up for five minutes but time-wise I have only had about a minute and a half.
Let me talk about what the Liberals say in their document. They refer to myth No. 1, a third order of government. The member for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast, as reported in Hansard of June 3, 1999, said:
There are some frightening and constitutionally questionable aspects to this treaty...The Nisga'a creates a new level of government, the Nisga'a national government.
This is the Liberal myth document. Let us see if what they say is the reality. They indicated that the treaty recognized the right to self-government and returned stewardship over the land to the Nisga'a, that the Nisga'a government would not have any exclusive jurisdiction, and that concurrent jurisdiction in this case between Nisga'a laws and all existing federal and provincial laws was a common feature of Canadian communities. That is what the Liberals say in their document Dancing with the Dinosaurs .
Let me quote from a Liberal friend in British Columbia, a friend of mine too over the years, Rafe Mair. Rafe and I have had some disagreements on politics. He said publicly that he would vote Liberal in the next election, so he is a Liberal. This is what he says in this Liberal myth document:
At the end of it all, the Nisga'a deal does three things: it denies rights, i.e. voting, to resident non-natives; it creates a fishery—