Mr. Speaker, the minister's temper is flaring. He should try living on one of these reserves.
The minister has replaced dozens of chiefs with his own financial managers in the last couple of years. Then he tells the managers that they do not have to pay the bills for local small businesses. This leaves tens of millions of dollars owing to private sector, family owned businesses. That is grossly unfair to those Canadians and the government is doing nothing about it.
The minister said that the chiefs are not responsible. The minister's manager is not responsible. When I asked the minister, he said he is not responsible.
On behalf of these Canadians, I want to ask the minister, if he is not responsible for this, who is--