Mr. Speaker, former Conservative minister Jim Prentice took the government to the woodshed yesterday over its mismanagement of pipelines. Canadian resources need access to markets, but the process for getting there is badly mangled by the government's failure to consult aboriginal peoples.
“There will be no way forward on west coast access without the central participation of the first nations...”, Mr. Prentice said. “The crown obligation to engage first nations in a meaningful way has yet to be taken up”, he said.
Why is that?