Mr. Speaker, as my hon. colleague has quite rightly pointed out, there were grassroots native people present who would have liked to have had a chance at the microphone. They were excluded and that was noted in the local paper. It was not only non-aboriginals.
There is a final point I would briefly like to make. A referendum would not only give non-native or non-aboriginal people the right to vote on this. Very clearly it is not just the Nisga'a who deserve a vote, but also the Gitksan, the Gitanyow, other tribes and other Indian bands in the province. They deserve a vote as well. The referendum, were it to be supported by the House and put to the people of British Columbia, would accomplish exactly that.