Madam Speaker, I think it is quite clear that the government of the day would probably write the question. It seems to want to write all the referendum questions that are being posed in the country.
I think the question can be very clear. It can be “Do you support the Nisga'a agreement?” If the government feels that the people of British Columbia do not know enough about it, perhaps it should look at itself. It is the one that denied British Columbians from being involved in the process.
When an agreement of this nature was being negotiated, the governments of the day, both governments—because I hold the Government of British Columbia equally responsible—should have understood from the very beginning that if they wanted it accepted by the people of British Columbia they had to include the people of British Columbia in the negotiations so that there would be an acceptance level there. They failed to do that. If they had done their job properly, the acceptance of the negotiations would probably be there.
It was because of the exclusion of the public in the debate and in the negotiations and of having those negotiations behind closed doors that the uncertainty is there whether they like it or not. The Government of British Columbia and the federal government have to share the responsibility for that situation.