Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You can only consider this any type of speedy process if you accept the fact that it’s okay to wait 45 years, from 1967 until today, for the basic rights that other Canadians enjoy. If the Member is
suggesting that we should be prepared to wait another 45 years, to still in that time period, we stay here as second-class Canadians because we don’t have those rights, I would highly disagree and say it’s high time that we move on this.
The federal government is currently taking in the royalties. The federal government is currently taking all those royalties. We do not get what is in this agreement. We are leaving...on this table we have left over $200 million. There’s going to be another $60 million this year. I’m not sure how the Member can sit here and say it’s not fair that we should just... We might as well have a big bonfire and burn all the money that we could have had, and for the Member to say we still need money for houses, we still need money, I want roads, I want this, I want that, yet we’ll turn our back on the opportunity to have those resources, to have the ability to generate more resources, and to be saying that we’re going to turn our back on that. We are not taking anything, we are not diminishing or derogating from any Aboriginal right, treaty settlement or land claim. Thank you.