From my memory--again, I was a little kid then--they didn't get it because the forms and the criteria were so restrictive. My father couldn't get it for a decade because he couldn't fit into any of the little grooves. He wasn't first nation in any way and he wasn't a quitter. That's how difficult it was.
I'm just trying to explain to my colleagues here how difficult this was, let alone if you had a language barrier or lived 500 miles away from the person you had to talk to. That's what I'm trying to drive at. That's why the government at some point made a compensation claim but missed part of the boat.
Is that what you'd say?