Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Health. Today the national leader of the Assembly of First Nations, Matthew Coon Come, accused the Prime Minister of deliberately shutting first nations peoples out of this week's meetings on health care. He noted, as did the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, that Canada has a shameful, third world record on aboriginal health issues, from infant mortality to AIDS to TB to life expectancy.
I want to ask the minister, why is the Prime Minister deliberately excluding first nations leadership tonight? When will the government finally move to implement the long overdue recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples?