Mr. Speaker, what he counts is last year's money and maybe next year's money but nothing this spring.
Until February, the books of the Government of Canada carried specific allocations to fully implement the Kelowna accords for aboriginal people: $1.8 billion for education, $1.6 billion for housing and water, $1.3 billion for health, $170 million for governance, $200 million for economic development, more than $5 billion altogether until February.
With the biggest surplus in Canadian history, why did the government gut 90% of the funding for aboriginal people?