I'd like to move on to the core payment of $20,000 for status aboriginals. There are other core payments for merchant veterans and so on. I still don't quite understand this myself, but for the non-status aboriginals, or the Métis, certainly there would be records of their service. Were they looking for, or were they entitled to...?
I know there was tremendous mistreatment of aboriginals who came back and who weren't eligible for land under the Soldier Settlement Board after World War II. The mistreatment has been well documented and well acknowledged. With regard to a non-status aboriginal, I appreciate the problems in terms of remoteness and so on, but I'm not clear on the core payment. What would be the basis of this?
Mr. MacPhee or Mr. Petit.