After Manitoba was created, Metis though they were going to be able to choose their own land, and their children’s lands. After five years of waiting to choose their lands, they instead got scrips. Metis were often taken advantage of and given nothing.  The children got land that had no access to water, and was located far from their families. The Metis were tired of waiting for land that they were not given and being taken advantage of, so they sold their scrips for far less than they were worth and moved to North West Territories. Harsh winters in the NWT forced the Metis before hunt before the Bison season, breaking the St. Laurent Laws. The hunt captain apprehended the offenders. Lawrence Clarke didn’t have the Metis best interests in mind, he felt like Europeans were far more superior than the Metis. The hunt captain was arrested and the original offenders were pardoned, and the St. Lawrence Laws were rendered useless by the Metis who did not care the laws. The creation of the Transcontinental Railway brought too many hunters, and this decreased the huntable Bison population. This created and economic failure.

Canada’s treatment of the Metis was unfair, and unprofessional, there was no justifiable reason to treat the Metis this way.