You're quite right. I'm not intending, nor am I here, to mislead.
I've sought to answer this.
As an official who was part of the codevelopment process with our partners to arrive at the mutually supported text of this bill, I think there was a very specific interest in noting that these governments, which had their rights denied in the past—including by the Government of Canada until the Daniels decision in 2016, which made clear to Canada that Métis are a federal responsibility.... There's been a long history of denial of the rights and authenticity of these governments as indigenous governments.
I think it's been our testimony collectively here today that the use of that term does not do more than recognize that these Métis governments represent rights holders. I'm all for added clarity, but I don't think the risk you're concerned about and that you've laid out here today is created by the usage of the term in this provision.