Is this the same Tom Flanagan who was an advisor to Stephen Harper? The one who felt that people viewing child porn were not harming anyone?

I digress. Tom Flanagan is saying that some people with indigenous ancestry are more equal than others despite the Supreme Court's position recognizing the Metis claim. The rules about proof should be tightened up definitely: Metis should have to prove they descended through record searches and proof. Many will not be able to because their families hid the indigenous for fear of persecution and there are no records. 

The issue of scrip is debatable: scrip appears to have been partly a tool of threat and many took scrip, parents took it for children, and then were forced off their land anyway. I suggest Mr. Flanagan read up on what preceded the Riel Rebellion.