Mr. Mitchell Case at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

I'll respond really quickly, Mr. Vidal, and maybe Vice-President LeClair can respond for the MN-S part.

In 2002, the Métis National Council, the MNC, adopted that definition. At the following assembly after that—again, I was 11—the Métis Nation of Ontario adopted that definition into its registry policy and have been implementing it ever since.

There are questions from before that point. As President Froh said, we dealt with that, and 5,000 citizens were removed because they didn't meet the national definition.

Other people can say other things, but that's the truth.