I think there's a whole series of processes that places are going through right now to change names and remove people's names from things. For example, my old hometown of Toronto is going through this with Dundas Street and other things. It's an interesting exercise.
The point more generally is that when we add names to things, rather than take them away, we add to our history. We've spent a lot of time in the last number of years thinking that we could cleanse ourselves of things that have gone wrong in the past by removing names, rather than just coming to terms with what happened when it happened.
For the commissioners in this case, the belief was that by representing the important historical and contemporary indigenous communities that are involved with some ridings and that have the right to be represented in Parliament, it was a positive way of recognizing Canada's indigenous history and indigenous present, rather than the less helpful exercise of simply removing people from things, thinking that it will somehow change the past, when it doesn't change the past or the future.