Mr. Speaker, I have heard numerous representations this evening that all parties had a place at the table at the first ministers conference. How can that be when both the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, CAP, and the Native Women's Association of Canada, NWAC, were not allowed to participate with full status? How can that be when representatives of the Quebec first nations boycotted the event?
The member who just spoke mentioned that representatives from the AFN in Quebec supported the accord, but Ghislain Picard, the AFN Quebec representative, was not in Kelowna. How does the member square that circle? How on the one hand can he say that the Quebec AFN supported the accord when Ghislain Picard, the AFN Quebec representative, was not in Kelowna?