Yes, thank you very much. I'll do my best to address that.
The short answer is no. The 25% who were excluded were the very obvious ones who had little connection to anywhere, but what took place after that.... I'm not sure if the committee is aware of this, but back in 2017 the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada all of a sudden recognized five, six or seven new communities in Ontario with no connection to the historic Métis Nation. The question we need to ask ourselves is, if they are not connected to the historic Métis Nation, and there is only one Métis Nation, who are these people?
We've seen the first nations chiefs talk about how the ancestors who are theirs are being hijacked in order to recreate Métis communities where there were none, so it is my supposition that this agreement between the MNO.... People keep saying it's an agreement between the Métis nation or Métis people of Ontario, but these people are not Métis. They are not Métis, because they are not connected to the historic Métis Nation.
There is an agreement between people who are calling themselves Métis and the Government of Canada, but there is no agreement now in Ontario, any type of agreement, between the Métis, so-called Métis, and Canada.