Mr. Speaker, I would not speak to the broader treaty rights that my colleague from Vancouver Island raised today. That is a question the minister should be responding to.
I will speak to first nations autonomy this evening. My first remarks I ever made in this House of Commons included that I wanted to do right by my first nations constituents. I want to see their autonomy improved. I want to see the Government of Canada get off reserves and give the first nations power over where their children go, get the provincial governments out of the way, and give first nations more autonomy to do the things they need to do to build their own wealth and their own social well-being moving forward.
That is my commitment to the first nations, to stand with them, to get the federal government out of the way so that they can truly prosper, and so that they are not bogged down by these unnecessary bureaucratic red-tape processes that govern every aspect of their life in ways that none of us in this House would find acceptable.