Meegwetch.
On the impacts, I'll speak only for the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation. We currently have 254 members. Removing the cut-off will allow us to steadily grow by 7% to 10% to 278 members in five years. It allows our members to be members of our community, to be accepted, to learn and to pass it on. In our hearts, we are Anishinabe. The federal government does not see us that way.
You're now again having a group of young children, after all the past that we can talk about.... We're doing it again to our children. We're telling them that they do not belong. We're telling them that they don't have access to their language. We're telling them that they shouldn't have access to their ceremonies.
That's what the federal government is telling them, not our home communities: Our home communities are doing everything we can to continue our traditions and our cultures. Our language is coming back in our young ones.