May I make a further comment on the land base question? Certainly, as Cassidy has said, Métis have been in this province since the late 1700s. We do have a connection to the land. We do have people who are harvesting regularly. We have a mapping program of our Métis harvesters through the B.C. Métis Assembly for National Resources. Protection of the land is one of the things we definitely strive for, as well as using the animals and harvesting for our community and things like sharing community freezers. Certainly, even though we don't have a land base to say that this is our traditional territory, we definitely are users of the land, and we have that connection through various hunts and similar things our communities take part in.
On November 2nd, 2016. See this statement in context.