Certain funding is specific, and certain services want to have the band number. The indigenous service number clears the way. It clears the way for our community because council and leadership understand per capita. The per capita opens that door. We have people who are waiting for a long time to see a psychologist because the psychologist wants only the band number. You cannot even go in as a family under one band number; they want the band number for that particular person. If you have a child who needs a special therapist and we have the therapist in the community, that's too bad. Your child will not be seen. We are excluded. There are exclusions.
In my own family, my son has a daughter. My granddaughter is registered because my son was born in 1974. He had a child, and she's registered. My daughter was born in 1989, so—too bad—it's past the cut-off date. How does that make sense, that one from the same parent, from the same community, living in the community, trying to participate...? There are others; there are not only mine. I get up and speak, regardless of how I'm going to be treated. I've had racism. I've had violence in my community. We've had people show up and beat up my nephews because we had taken a home. We needed a place to live. This is what goes on in our daily lives, and this has to stop. It is insane. It is perpetuated by the Indian Act. The second generation cut-off is the barrier right now. We've gone through all the other barriers, but it's taken years of litigation and court proceedings.