"Opinion: Defining ‘Métis’ will defend our community - The Globe and Mail": theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
Before we get to disingenuous Ms MONEO, "Nova Scotia had growth that was too good to be true: Thirty years ago, 225 Métis lived in the province, and by 2016, there were more than 23,000." -- First off 30 years ago was 1991, until the 1981 census, the only ethnicity recorded was 
historically one sided. Only the applicants paternal ethnicity was to be recorded. Do you think maybe once they changed their recording processes and people could actually identify their Metis roots through their maternal ancestry, that had anything to do with growth change
pattern you see? It had to do with being able to record and claim the Metis identities that they were unable to when just paternal identity data was being recorded. You have no idea if those people changed their identities, or just claimed on a census an identity they have always
had but were unable to record before they changed the census recording policies. Weird how you nor Darryl Leroux ever make that known in all the writing that comes out of this issue.
Census - Ethnic Origin - Refers to the ethnic or cultural group-s- to which the respondent's ancestors belong.- Prior to the 1981 Census, only the respondent's paternal ancestry was to be reported.
Fourth Census of Canada, 1901. Vol. I, Population = Quatrième recensement du Canada, 1901. Vol. I, Population. - Archibald Blue Special Census Commisioner.
ABORIGINAL PEOPLE IN MANITOBA- Manitoba government program data and statistics gathered by Statistics Canada in the Government of Canada’s 2006 Census - how much more is due to those who more recently claimed their Metis identity.
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