Discussion · Government Orders
Tako Van Popta Conservative
“I agree that the government must consult Indigenous people and work toward reconciliation. But we should not do this by weakening private property rights, which our economy depends on.”
“Mr. Speaker, if I had a half-hour or an hour, I would have talked about all the interesting cases, but I had only 10 minutes. The Haida case is obviously a very important case. It talks about and expands on the principle of the duty to consult. I will not argue with that. There is a duty to consult. We agree with that. We agree that reconciliation is important, but to undermine the private property regime that Canada’s economy is built on is not the way forward on reconciliation.”
Official Hansard
Mr. Speaker, if I had a half-hour or an hour, I would have talked about all the interesting cases, but I had only 10 minutes. The Haida case is obviously a very important case. It talks about and expands on the principle of the duty to consult. I will not argue with that. There is a duty to consult. We agree with that. We agree that reconciliation is important, but to undermine the private property regime that Canada’s economy is built on is not the way forward on reconciliation.