One of the problems we have identified is that a lot of people who are members of fraudulent Métis organizations are in fact non-status descendants of a first nation. They lost their status. Then you have first nations who are subjected to the second-generation cut-off. Then you have the Métis, such as the Métis Nation of Ontario, which seems to accept people up to 10 generations. There is no consistency across the board.
Those are the issues we are mitigating. Disingenuous colonial frameworks created this problem in the first place. Pretendianism would not exist without the absolute failure of colonial systems to look at us and tell us who we are. We are telling you. Here we are, telling you that this is who we are. Nobody is listening. Nobody is listening.
I'm grateful that this community will actually finally be heard.
Thank you.