Mr. Speaker, the B.C. Liberals walked out of the provincial legislature yesterday in protest over the NDP's unprecedented move to cut off debate on the Nisga'a treaty. Liberal leader Gordon Campbell called the NDP's strong-arm tactics “exceptional in the extreme and an assault on our democratic institutions”. Liberal MLA Mike de Jong blasted Clark's government for imposing a “draconian and sinister closure motion”.
Will the government commit here and now to tell Glen Clark that ratification in this House will not proceed until the democratic institutions of British Columbia have been respected?