Mr. Speaker, it has been eight months since the Prime Minister was elected, claiming he would build nation-building projects at speeds not seen in generations.
Now we have learned that he has not even started consultations. He could have started these within weeks of the last election, given the existential crisis that he claimed. The Prime Minister's incoming heritage minister said that consultations should have begun yesterday, taking a shot at the Prime Minister, and that one cannot do consultations on a desktop, taking another shot at the natural resources minister, who said they could be done by Zoom.
Has the Prime Minister avoided consultation with first nations because he does not care about them, or because he does not want a pipeline built?