In the meeting I asked them whether they would be willing to entertain answering for me whether, as some members of the opposition were suggesting, their legislation and their laws are the way Canada should go, and these opposition members were portraying it as a way in which Australia had somehow restricted aboriginal people in legislation.
Je leur ai demandé s'ils étaient prêts à me dire si, comme certains députés de l'opposition le laissent entendre, les mesures et les lois australiennes devraient servir de modèles aux nôtres vu que, d'après ces députés de l'opposition, les lois australiennes avaient d'une façon ou d'une autre imposé des restrictions aux Autochtones.