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{
"time": "2003-06-05 14:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Brian Pallister (Portage\u2014Lisgar, Canadian Alliance)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, we would not remodel our home if the foundation was rotten. That would be wasteful, foolish and illogical.</p>\n<p>Yet that is exactly what the federal government is doing with <a href=\"/bills/541/\" class=\"related_link legislation\" title=\"An Act respecting leadership selection, administration and accountability of Indian bands, and to make related amendments to other Acts\">Bill C-7</a>, the $1 billion first nations governance act.</p>\n<p>The Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development said just a few days ago that all 634 Canadian chiefs were \u201cself-serving bullies\u201d. If he believes that assertion we would have to ask ourselves why he would then want to give those bullies much more power than they already have.</p>\n<p>The bill would entrench the most expensive and least effective model of governance yet tried in first nations.</p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the government is preoccupied with the dumb as a bag of hammers <a href=\"/bills/558/\" class=\"related_link legislation\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Income Tax Act (political financing)\">Bill C-24</a>, the political financing act.</p>\n<p>Rifts have developed. A legacy is at risk. However</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>the Liberals have resolved the issue by tapping the taxpayers for another $5 million, all because the bill would have an impact on just $1 million of Liberal fundraising.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Canadian taxpayers are being charged a billion--</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/2003/6/5/brian-william-pallister-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/220/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1608/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Aboriginal Affairs",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2003/6/5/",
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}