Mr. Speaker, National Chief Bellegarde was pretty clear on this. He said:
It’s hard to talk about reconciliation when you have 120 First Nations communities with boil water advisories.
We will not have reconciliation as long as first nations live in poverty and there are kids who do not have schools and safe drinking water.
For years the Liberal and Conservative governments have underfunded first nations, compared to other Canadians. Will the government right this injustice and close the funding gap?