We in the Liberal Party are very sensitive to the fact that this is an agreement that was made between the first nation and Canada in the agreements of 2008 and 2011. However, I think we felt it was important to bring this to committee in that it's a rather unusual precedent that in a process that badly underestimated the numbers and where clause 4 says that even though the process was severely flawed, people can't receive any compensation or damages or indemnity for what was a flawed process. This seems to be an unusual precedent for a government to indemnify itself against mistakes that clearly were made.
We want to know why you don't think it should be the courts that decide and why you are asking Parliament to prejudge this situation.