Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I listened to the member opposite as he read from his speech. When he started to say what the prices were in Rankin Inlet, it was tempting me to go and shop there. If eggs are a little over $2 a dozen in Rankin, I would be absolutely shocked. I live in a riding that receives a subsidy on many items and I have never, ever seen prices that low.

Yukon and Nunavut Regulatory Improvement Act  Mr. Speaker, first, trilateral means three. It does not mean one. It is not just the Government of Canada. It is not just the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. It means that there has to be real decision making and consensus building around how governance is going to occur by all parties.

Yukon and Nunavut Regulatory Improvement Act  Mr. Speaker, my colleague from the Northwest Territories was part of the hearings in Yukon as well. He heard the messaging, as I did, the very desperate and justified pleas of many Yukoners on the changes they wanted to see made. The member also brought a number of amendments to committee to be looked at, but unfortunately they did not passed.

Yukon and Nunavut Regulatory Improvement Act  Mr. Speaker, first of all, there are no Liberal senators. I wanted to clarify that for the record—

Yukon and Nunavut Regulatory Improvement Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank you for the opportunity to speak with regard to the third reading of the bill before the House. It is certainly a bill that has received a tremendous amount of debate in the House of Commons. Unfortuantely, the debate has been an exercise that has not really reaped the rewards we wanted to see, nor has it seen the real changes the people of the Yukon and the territorial governments wanted to see.

Yukon and Nunavut Regulatory Improvement Act  Mr. Speaker, I can tell you that if you want to hear political platitudes, you will hear it today. I make no apologies for any remarks that I made on CBC up there, but the member for Yukon should be making a lot of apologies, starting with some to his constituents for, first of all, not even showing up at committee to support the recommendations that they basically drafted and asked members of the House of Commons to put forward on their behalf.

Yukon and Nunavut Regulatory Improvement Act  Mr. Speaker, I am very disappointed today to see that the government is trying to push this bill through the House of Commons and is calling time allocation, not unlike what it has done throughout this whole process on Bill S-6. This is supposed to be an improvement of the regulatory process for Yukon.

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, it is unfortunate that debate on the bill is going to be limited, because there are so many Canadians who will not be getting anything from the bill, and they want to have a voice. Why is there no northern strategy by the government opposite? In the north we hear of people looking in the dumps for food, because it is not affordable.

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition on behalf of people in my riding in the Labrador West area who, unfortunately, are seeing cuts to their postal services. The petitioners ask that Canada Post Corporation not downgrade its service and leave the community with reduced levels of postal service.

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, if this was not a problem, people would have food. They would not be scrounging in the dump. If this was serious for the government, it would not be trying to cover it up. Why is Aboriginal Affairs paying a consulting firm in Ottawa to find a solution for the north?

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, as many as 350 residents are still living in hotels and apartments because of last year's flood. Does the minister not understand that these are real people whose lives are being torn apart year after year because there has been no real action taken to mitigate or prevent this serious problem?

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, I am turning to Nutrition North and northern programs now. I would like to ask the minister first if he believes that north of 60 programming should be available to all Inuit in the north, including Nunatsiavut, Nunavik, and NunatuKavut.

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, people in the north are really looking for affordable food. They are looking for access to nutritional food. So far this program has failed to deliver. We have heard stories of people in Rankin Inlet scrounging for food in the dump. Aboriginal Affairs is giving more than $500,000 to an Ottawa-based private consulting firm to work here in Ottawa to develop new subsidy models.

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, it is about making choices and the government opposite made choices to not put additional funding in the budget for first nation people, but instead to move money around. When it comes to missing and murdered indigenous women in our country, why is he not supporting an inquiry into the more than 1,000 missing and murdered aboriginal women?

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, it is not about a study; it is about getting to the root cause of violence against aboriginal women in our country. I ask the minister: by not doing this inquiry, is the government sending a message that violence against indigenous women is okay?