Il me semble que si on partait d'une idée positive comme celle-là, si on partait d'un consensus qui était si bien formulé par la Commission royale sur les peuples autochtones, mais qu'on a abandonné, si on reprenait cela tout de suite et qu'on oubliait le mauvais épisode, la mauvaise aventure du projet de loi C-7, les leaders des premières nations, j'en suis persuadé, seraient prêts demain matin à s'asseoir avec le gouvernement.
They want to have their own land and their own resources and they want to develop them and reap the profits that come from developing these resources. I think that if we were to start with a positive approach of this type, if we started with the consensus that was expressed so well by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, but that was abandoned, if we adopted that immediately and if we forgot about this unfortunate chapter, the unfortunate adventure of Bill C-7, I am sure that the leaders of the first nations would be ready to sit down and start talking to the government tomorrow morning.
