Mr. Speaker, over the last 30 years in Canada we have seen an eightfold increase in per capita spending on aboriginal problems, yet the societal problems continue and worsen. This billion dollar Band-Aid approach of dealing with symptoms and ignoring the causes just throws good money after bad.
My question for the finance minister is, what analysis has he done that would let the government believe that its failed approach will work in the future any better than it has in the past?