Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In concluding my statement, issues have been raised in this House about individuals who return home from the South after a couple of months, and the problems we have seen in how they're dealt with by Social Services for access to social programs such as welfare and being restricted from those rights based on residency. These people we call aboriginal people have been here for thousands of years. In some cases, 20,000 to 30,000 years. Yet, when it comes to where they come from, this government seems to have a problem in identifying exactly where their homeland is. This is their homeland. They were here long before this government, or even Canada.
David Krutko on Treaty Rights
In the Legislative Assembly on May 23rd, 1996. See this statement in context.
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