This is hard to believe, I know, but it is absolutely true. My own grandson, who is three quarters Tsimshian, was taken by the Ministry of Child Abduction and kept from his family for more than three years. We hired a lawyer and paid more than $30,000 to get him back in a process that saw government workers submit openly dishonest “assessments” in order to justify their actions. While lingering in waiting rooms at their various offices, his white relatives discovered that our own was not an isolated case; the difference was that we had enough money to buy representation, while most First Nations families do not.