House of Commons Debates

Oral Question

Monday, December 10, 2001

Aboriginal Affairs

    Mr. Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre, NDP): Mr. Speaker, imagine the surprise of first nations leaders to learn from the National Post that the Liberal government is fundamentally changing its policy toward aboriginal people. It says it wants to stop spending so much money on nuisance issues like rights and redress, land claim negotiations or access to resources. It has been the government's intransigence on these very issues that has led to a thousand outstanding land claims and expensive court cases.