When public discourse devolves into an obsession with blood and soil, things never turn out well.
The Supreme Court of Canada, in its 2016 Daniels decision, which declared that Metis persons were potentially entitled to unspecified rights traditionally granted only to Indian Act Indians and Inuits, gave its seal of approval to the application of Aryan race theory in Canada to the situation of Aboriginal peoples generally.
The Court wrote that if a person possesses “sufficient racial and social characteristics to be considered a “native person”, that individual will be regarded as an “Indian”.
The Court defined legal rights based on considerations of “mixed ancestry” and “Native hereditary basis”- race terms.
It even made an uncritical reference to “Indian blood”, as if it were a biological fact, when in fact it is scientifically nonsensical.

