Mr. Speaker, to my mind the Nisga'a treaty gives us the opportunity to yet again show how this side of the House, how the Liberal government, wants to make progress for the benefit of first nations in Canada.
I would like to remind the House of some of the approaches of the opposition. First of all, members will remember that their solution to the devastating poverty on first nations communities was to cut $1 billion from my ministry's budget. I would remind members that they were so committed to the Inuit in Nunavut that when we had the debate in the House, all they focused on was the Senate issue. Here is a good one. I want to remind the House that their enlightened solution at Ipperwash was to call in the army. Are we to take them seriously at all?