I will go back to the legal lacuna. There have been 150 years of, for better or worse, a recognition of the legitimacy of first nations governance through the Indian Act. Their traditional governments have been usurped and truncated in some ways by the Indian Act, but at least there's a legislative base and a recognition there.
Métis haven't had that, so now when we're.... It's not that we're the new kid on the block or anything like that. It's that you're finally recognizing. It creates tension, because sometimes there are challenges with a “crab in the pot” sort of circumstance, or if you recognize one, you're taking away from others.
I don't believe that. I think that rights can coexist, like our peoples have coexisted for generations.
That being said, that's where the tension comes from. I want to highlight that it's not of our own making. This is Canada's colonial policies coming home to roost, but the answer can't be not recognizing one of Canada's distinct indigenous peoples—the Métis—in section 35.