Yes. I could have never imagined, when I took on this responsibility in 2015, that so much of my time and the time that Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami spends would be on protecting the constitutionally protected status of Inuit against fraudulent collectives that claim Inuit status or individuals in government and in academia who—and either I or our organization have had to interact with them—turned out to be—the nomenclature is “pretendians”: people who are not indigenous who gain status, whether it be in the academic, government or private sector, based on being something that they weren't.
That is why it is so imperative that we short-circuit these opportunities for bad actors. We have had too much experience with these scenarios to think that it is somehow a one-off or one or two people who got caught. This is a movement, and the ability to create an indigenous collective in this country and then immediately have an opportunity to get education, health and economic development benefits is there for the taking.
I'm not saying anything that's secret. It is an open secret that people are driving a truck through, and we need some way for the federal government to be a leader to stop this.