Mr. Speaker, what we read in the National Post flies in the face of that. It sounds like déjà vu to aboriginal leaders. It is back to the future to the 1969 white paper. Everything has changed since 1969 except for the fact that the architect of that disastrous document is the Prime Minister of Canada today.
Instead of embarking on a destructive collision course with first nations, would it not be a better legacy to commit to a program of recognizing treaty rights, settling these outstanding land claims and embarking on a true economic development program by guaranteeing access to resources on first nations' lands to first nations peoples?