Madam Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to push back against the member's assertion. I think members can check the record. I have raised issues numerous times on behalf of my constituents, including my indigenous constituents, related to the Enoch Cree Nation. It has made multiple attempts to access rural broadband funding, housing funding and waste-water funding from the federal government, only to be rejected every single time.
In fact, the chief and council of the Enoch Cree Nation reached out in relation to a funding program that was set up by the government to clean up abandoned orphaned wells. There are a number of orphaned wells on the Enoch Cree Nation's lands. There was money left over in the fund. The nation begged the Liberal government to set aside the funds so first nations could go out, do the work and clean up the abandoned wells.
What did the government do instead? It clawed back the funding, not only hurting our environment and leaving first nations communities with a bigger cleanup bill and environmental disasters on their lands but also preventing indigenous businesses from succeeding—