Thank you.
Then for Marjolaine Étienne, Stats Canada says the Indian status population is growing by 4.1%. The number I have for the average Canadian population is 5.5%. This is way lower. I think there is a common theme out there that the indigenous population is growing, but I also recognize that it's the self-identified population that's growing. Status Indian membership is its own technical box, and it's only growing by 4.1%.
I've seen a few different stats in terms of when the status Indian population will peak. Right here on the Stats Canada website, it says that it won't peak before 2041, but there's nothing after that. There's no sentence saying that it will keep growing after 2041, so one can safely assume that it will peak eventually and that things will go down and entire communities will go extinct.
Have you heard fears from Quebec or some of the women you represent that their communities will go extinct in their lifetime?