Madam Speaker, a Liberal member says to join them. Who would join one of the most corrupt people ever elected in this country? These are the same people who legislated indigenous people having no water, and they are heckling an indigenous member now. That is how disturbed they are by their own record.
Now, with goodness and decency, the member for Winnipeg South is telling them, “We are going to lose on this, so we had better not talk about it.” I appreciate that because it is true. The Liberals have no clue how to engage indigenous people, unless a court is telling them how to do it. That is a true fact. I beg my Liberal colleagues to look at that. Every single agreement comes through the narrow lens of the law. The government would rather debate who has rights in a matter of law, in a court of law, than to acknowledge that indigenous people are truly people who need recognition and rights in this place. That is the real shame of all this.
I have spoken to the government many times about this pervasive issue. The Minister of Indigenous Services and the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations admit that Canada's system is like this. They have to go to the courts, and then we will come to them; that is just the process. We have to prove to them that we have rights. No. I say Canada needs to prove to me that it has rights. It needs to prove to indigenous people why it thinks its laws are superficial to the indigenous natural law that exists in this place.
This is how far away we have come from the true necessary pieces of this discussion. We fail to see a nation-to-nation relationship when we always come at it from this domestic point of view, in which these nations lack the quality of sovereignty. They lack the quality of nationhood and of being able to assert self-determination for themselves. This kind of paternalism is sick, and it is over. This, today, is a warning. This discussion is a warning to pretendians everywhere. If they attempt to steal indigenous people's identity for the purpose of reputation or funding, we will find them. We will take from them everything they have sought to take from indigenous people.
I say to indigenous people, who have suffered from these very obvious and long-standing cases of discrimination, that a better future is possible. A better future is near us. We have young people who are engaged in these systems right now; they are innovating, learning their language, coming back to the land and doing the hard work of reconnecting with who they really are. That is a blessing.
We have a great blessing just ahead of us. It is the generation to come right after me. Those young indigenous people are fierce. They are warriors; they are strong. I am so deeply proud of them. I cannot wait until they fill this chamber with their voices, with their stories, and bring true justice and true accountability to this country. We need to see that future. The future is promising. The future is with our indigenous youth; it will be one where who we are, our dignity and our stories are truly met. This beautiful planet will then have an opportunity to share with all of us the opportunities that I hope indigenous people will make present for everyone.