I can't answer the question specifically, but I have my suspicions. It harks back to the efforts that have been made over hundreds of years to eradicate us as a people, first through confining us in the concentration camps they call reserves and expecting us to die off. There were only 192,000 people left in the late 1800s.
That mentality of doing away with the Indian problem still exists at the higher levels of government. That is the sad part of it. The efforts that are going on right now are intended to make us assimilate rather than help us get back on our feet. If you assimilate us, then the Indian problem is gone. This is unacceptable to us as nations, as aboriginal people. I think that is the reason that there's a continued drive to—