Mr. Speaker, 13 months ago this Indian affairs minister promised that his department's consultative process on this initiative would reach every aboriginal person in Canada.
It has proven to be 99% wrong in the province of Manitoba, where only 1% of the aboriginal population in that province has participated.
What assurances could the minister give today to skeptical first nations people and ourselves that this top down initiative will in no way jeopardize the current framework agreement?