Madam Speaker, if the Minister of Indigenous Services were to show up in the next week or two on a reserve in northern Saskatchewan or northern Manitoba, where there is no more drinking water, where housing problems are dire, where two or three families are squeezed into unsanitary one-bedroom dwellings with no heat, where the memory of missing children and murdered women is still very much alive, what would he tell people who ask him what actions his government took after the discovery of the mass grave in British Columbia?
The minister would have no choice but to tell them that his government took action by changing three words in the oath of Canadian citizenship.
How does my colleague think those community members would react?