Madam Speaker, the greatest governments to ever help indigenous people are our own people's governments. I have served my own people's government. I served as the national director for the Métis Settlements General Council.
The member cites a historic treaty that was just signed. In my speech, if he had listened, I said every single agreement that reaches a Liberal's desk is one that has been forced down their throat by the court. The MMF decision was one. People can open their phones, google it and look at it. It is the 2013 Supreme Court case of Manitoba Métis Federation v. Canada, citing Canada as in breach of the Manitoba Act, 1870, which my ancestors died for. They paid the ultimate price.
The member is now lecturing me, over 100 years later, as a descendant of those people, those brave men who died for that province. For him to then tell me it was not a court case, I challenge him to read the MMF v. Canada Supreme Court case.