Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister says that it is the duty of parliament to decide, and yet look at how the government has treated parliament on this issue. It uses closure and time allocation to cut off debate. It stacks committees and stifles committee hearings. It was not going to hold hearings in British Columbia until forced to by the official opposition. It denies free votes to its own members on any issue of government policy.
If the Nisga'a treaty is so good, why does the government have to resort to all of these undemocratic procedures in order to ram it through parliament and impose it on British Columbia?