Mr. Speaker, the problem with the government's first nations governance act is that it fails to demonstrate any understanding that it has learned from the failures of the past.
The thin-skinned Indian affairs minister wants us to go back to the future to an approach that is both dictatorial and top down. That is exactly the approach the governments of the past took; a father knows best approach, which is unilateral. Governments of the past did not listen and this government is not listening now.
The first nations governance act, like the Indian Act, is well intentioned but it is clumsy, unilateral and imposed.
One stains our past. When will the minister realize that the other threatens to endanger and stain our future as well?