It's because there's no verification. At the end of the day, they seem to think that if you walk in the door, you cannot be asked for proof of being indigenous, and that's where the problem lies when anybody can walk in the door and say they're Inuit or Métis or first nations without any verification, and as you know, first nation communities and band members have received their status from Ottawa.
As for membership in the other indigenous organizations, I'm not sure how that's being done, but that's questionable to me as a first nations person. I just want to ensure that we are doing this in a correct way and stop going behind closed doors and coming out with documents and saying that this is what we have as a policy and tweak it. You wasted time and money.
As I mentioned earlier, we need to be at the forefront of this discussion because we know where the needs are within these policies. Please take that into consideration before moving forward and again going behind closed doors and saying that we heard from them, and this is what we've come up with. That's got to stop. They've done it for years and years and years, and it's got to stop. It's wasting government money as well as your time and my time.