Mr. Speaker, the answer is yes. The reason the statement was made the way it was yesterday is because we want to get beyond just the rhetoric and statement of principle and show that there is an actual process that we are contemplating to try to have these rights exercised with or without the constitutional entrenchment of that right in the Canadian Constitution.
Stephen Kakfwi on Question O157-12(1): Government's Support Of Inherent Right Of Aboriginal Self-government
In the Legislative Assembly on December 18th, 1991. See this statement in context.
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Question O157-12(1): Government's Support Of Inherent Right Of Aboriginal Self-government
Item 5: Oral Questions
December 17th, 1991
Page 187
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