As we had occasion to point out during our intervention, Madam Speaker, the fact that there has been no consultation means, among other things, that first nations, which will now be hit with a point of sale tax that was not applicable to them and should not be and will not be once it gets to the Supreme Court, will have to go through years, again, of fights before the courts to have their rights recognized.
To the extent that the Supreme Court has already repeated the obligation to consult, to be holding this session right now with the procedural guillotine of the Conservatives by imposing closure, there will be no consultation. Witnesses will not be heard. Nothing will happen that would allow the first nations to come before us and to say, “This is not on. You cannot do this”.
However, that is what the Liberals want. Those are the same Liberals, it should be borne in mind, who love to remind people that after 13 years in office, they had a plan for first nations. They were calling it Kelowna, and they said it would really be good. The problem was that during 13 years, they had done absolutely nothing. That is why the Liberals have no trouble supporting the Conservatives to remove the rights of first nations. We find it scandalous.