Madam Speaker, it is absurd and ridiculous that a member of that party would say that there are not enough good government programs and that is the reason why aboriginal people are in this situation. Time and time again the Alliance and its precursor party have criticized those programs, wanted to cut them and brought up the amount of money that was spent on them.
We talk about first nations people not being different. Does the member think that in the Whitehorse Hospital for instance there is a first nations health centre? Does the member think that because this is a different culture and a different way of healing that it should not be treated differently and that public funds should not be spent that way? More important, if Canada has failed the aboriginal people so badly, which leads to the higher levels of incarceration that we are trying to solve here, what then is the Alliance's prescription to solve those problems that the Government of Canada has failed so miserably to solve?