MNO leadership travelled to 23 communities and hear d fr om 1500 citizens A second What W e Hear d r eport has been compiled and was discussed at the 2012 AGA Once put in place the permanent Metis Identifcation and Registr y Policy will support a rigor ous applica tion pr ocess which must be undertaken by individual applicants because it establishes the cr edibility and in tegrity of the MNO s citizenship application pr ocess and distinguishes the MNO fr om other pr ovincial or federal Metis or ganizations that grant or sell memberships without r equesting supporting documentation This in itself pr ovides assurances to gover nment and industr y r epr esentatives who negotiate with the Metis Nation of Ontario that they ar e dealing with democratically elected r epr esentatives of rightsbearing Metis communities 11 Metis means a person who selfidentifes as Metis is distinct fr om other Aboriginal peoples is of Historic Metis n ation ances try and is accepted by the Metis n ation 12 Historic Metis n ation means the Aborigi nal people then known as Metis or Half br eeds who r esided in the Historic Metis n ation Homeland 13 Historic Metis n ation Homeland means the ar ea of land in west central n orth America used and occupied as the tradi tional territory of the Metis or Halfbr eeds as they wer e then known 14 Metis n ation means the Aboriginal people descended fr om the Historic Metis n ation which is now comprised of all Metis n ation citizens and is one of the aborigi nal peoples of c anada within the meaning of s35 of the Constitution Act 1982 15 d istinct fr om other Aboriginal peoples means distinct for cultural and nationhood purposes n a TI onal d ef I n ITI on of m e TI s