Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, I, too, support the motion. It is based on what the federal Liberal party's mandate is with regard to the aboriginal communities in its efforts to address the obstacles to their development and to help them marshall the human and physical resources necessary to sustain a viable community.
Madam Speaker, in the Deh Cho region, there are two MLAs who represent 10 aboriginal communities. Those 10 aboriginal communities each have their own agenda of their own political initiative. That initiative shouldn't deter from the Liberal's own position regarding the inherent right to self-government and existing aboriginal and treaty rights. Madam Speaker, for the record, we have a federal policy regarding aboriginal rights and rights that can be extended under the red book of the Liberal government.
I would hope that when Mr. Irwin comes here, he doesn't come under any illusion that he comes with a different platform as opposed to what the Liberal government has already promised the aboriginal people.