Mr. Speaker, for decades we have seen Supreme Court decisions that favour indigenous rights, and we see the government ignore these rights-based decisions in the courts, which are enshrined in the constitution, or they take years to implement. As soon as a nation loses in court or its right gets diminished, there is a regulation or policy in place in weeks, but when it is a nation that wins, the government drags its feet.
Does my colleague not see this as a problem? The Conservatives spent millions of dollars fighting indigenous fishing rights. In the Ahousaht case, it was tens of millions of dollars. Does he not respect that indigenous fishing rights are different, that they are an inherent right and privilege, and they are not the same as commercial fishing rights? I hope he will recognize that.