Madam Speaker, along the lines of this issue, we have a rather large problem in aboriginal communities in Ontario and in Quebec, in Kanesatake and Kahnawake, where trafficking of contraband exists between the United States and Canada within the boundaries of these aboriginal reserves.
Law-abiding aboriginal people who live on these reserves are subject to these criminal elements of organized crime gangs and basic thuggery. The RCMP is having a difficult time trying to deal with this issue within the context of those reserves.
Canada pays a price, but those who pay a much larger price are the law-abiding aboriginal people who live in fear of their lives and their families lives and of their livelihoods. Organized crime gangs often are attached to members outside of reserves, but sometimes with aboriginal crime gangs within reserves, and they exercise their activities with impunity.
Does the member have any suggestions on what the House could do to help the police address the massive problem of trafficking of contraband and the thuggery within aboriginal reserves, which circumscribe the boundaries between the United States and Canada? How can we help and protect the aboriginal people on those reserves who live in fear of their lives?