Discussion · Oral Questions
Billy Morin Conservative
“First Nations should decide their own future. At the meeting this week, they wanted to talk about business, land, and treaty rights. Instead, the Prime Minister brought up getting rid of the Indian Act. I want him to explain why he is bringing up an old idea that causes division.”
“Mr. Speaker, Conservatives believe in self-determination and first nations deciding their own paths for themselves. At Monday’s first ministers’ meeting, first nations helped determine the agenda on economic partnership, land, and treaty rights, but the Prime Minister could not focus on that important conversation and instead resorted to speculation about abolishing the Indian Act, which was not the focus of the first nations’ agenda. Why is the Prime Minister now inviting the uncertainty and division that comes with resurrecting the Liberal Indian Act white paper of 1969?”
Official Hansard
Mr. Speaker, Conservatives believe in self-determination and first nations deciding their own paths for themselves. At Monday’s first ministers’ meeting, first nations helped determine the agenda on economic partnership, land, and treaty rights, but the Prime Minister could not focus on that important conversation and instead resorted to speculation about abolishing the Indian Act, which was not the focus of the first nations’ agenda. Why is the Prime Minister now inviting the uncertainty and division that comes with resurrecting the Liberal Indian Act white paper of 1969?