Billy Morin: “This one matters. We can't sit this one out.”

It’s wrong when people are faced with their homes burning down and their lives on the line that government officials don’t react to say, ‘We’re going to do everything in our power to help you,’ and they cite policy and technicalities not…

It is especially troubling that Parliamentary Secretary Battiste has reportedly warned Liberal colleagues that delaying Bill S-2 is damaging the government’s already weakened relationship with Indigenous Peoples.

The second-generation cutoff is discriminatory. The Senate has provided a path to remove it. Hundreds of First Nations have called for action. Thousands of people have written to Parliament.

Albertans are not going anywhere, First Nations people are not going anywhere, regardless of what happens in this referendum, and we have to get down to the table together and kind of chart out a path.