"If this is going to be a watershed for aboriginal people, why haven't half the people living off the reserves been addressed?" he asked.
And David Chartrand, the Manitoba Metis leader who opened the conference by presenting Martin with a finely embroidered buckskin jacket, later emerged from the closed-door talks to complain that while Martin was offering C$1.8 billion for native education, the provincial premiers weren't giving any to the Metis.
``It's like inviting you to the house but you're kept on the porch,'' Chartrand complained.
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