I'll speak for British Columbia. I'm not here to speak on behalf of Canada and the whole bigger picture, but I do support my brothers and sisters in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Métis children in British Columbia are the highest number of indigenous kids in care right now. We can stand behind that because we've been preaching that. Right now we don't know where our children are in British Columbia. If our children were taken away, we'd have no idea if they're in culturally sensitive homes or who they are. We're still experiencing that.
The last few suicides in care have been Métis children in British Columbia. We know that. In fact, a good friend of mine lost one of his sons. He was put in a hotel, because where does he go? It's the hot potato, we call it. First nations don't want to handle it. Nobody wants to handle it. It's “He's Métis, so we can do this.” That's why the culture's so....
I was a police officer for 26 years. I saw the devastation from the ramifications of those policies. Because we don't have a self-government agreement in British Columbia, I believe these are still the consequences of the policies of Canada, which have been there for over 100 years for us.