Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the parliamentary secretary for his speech. He spoke at length about public consultations.
The first part of my question is to find out what type of consultations we are talking about. Were there any face-to-face meetings?
All summer long there was a huge movement called Idle No More. I was wondering whether the public consultations took advantage of this movement to meet face-to-face with the different leaders who were there, and whether anyone took advantage of this large gathering to hold public consultations. This was a golden opportunity to allow people to express themselves. I was wondering whether anyone took that opportunity.