Mr. Speaker, they are willing partners, and they want to work with the government to help people with disabilities.
Now let us move to the Privacy Commissioner, who found that officials in two government departments wilfully broke privacy laws when they spied on Cindy Blackstock, an indigenous human rights champion. The Minister of Aboriginal Affairs told the House, “We shall fully implement the recommendations of the commissioner”, but when Blackstock's lawyers went to the government officials and asked them to sign a commitment that included that they stop spying on her, they refused.
Why is the minister telling the House and the media one thing but directing his officials to continue, essentially, to spy on Cindy Blackstock?