If there are only three that we recognize, I wonder if this is a problem for, I've heard of other communities saying that throughout their history, there have been a lot of problems. Let me use the Nova Scotia example. In the 1940s, there were 47 different areas where Mi'kmaq resided. During the 1940s, they created a centralization movement with the province and the federal government that took those 47 different communities and said that they were going to centralize them to two. There was an attempt during that time to remove all of the different areas. After 1960, there remained only 13 communities who were recognized by the federal government.
I've had people come to me and say, “There was a first nation reserve here, a first nation reserve here, a first nation reserve here” in Nova Scotia, but they have very loose ties to the ancestors of those communities and are saying that they should be recognized as a band.
How do we ensure that we look out for the abuses of those who would try to profit from something with their very loose ancestral connections to areas that used to have first nation communities?