Thank you for the question.
I'm very sorry to hear that. I heard that and I was very sorry to hear it.
The Métis National Council has always embraced the Métis Nation of Ontario, going back to the very beginning. On the Supreme Court of Canada decision, after that decision came down in 2003, Clem Chartier, who was president at the time, said, “As Sault St. Marie is part of the larger Métis Nation, this decision will have far reaching implications on the larger Métis collective throughout the Métis Nation Homeland [throughout] Western Canada. The people who stand charged before you today are descendants of the Historic Métis Nation, and more specifically, the historic Métis community at Sault Ste Marie.”
What is really baffling to me is why the Manitoba Métis Federation would rely on the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Regina v. Powley, so that the people there could enjoy the constitutional right to hunt and fish for food. It's kind of hypocritical to me that, on the one hand, you want to rely on the Supreme Court of Canada's case on Sault Ste. Marie and then you turn around and try to say the community doesn't exist.