A number of people have recently written to the National Post or directly to me taking issue with my suggestion that a comprehensive reform of Canada’s policy toward Indigenous people be negotiated with responsible and high-achievement leaders representative of all of the Aboriginal peoples. Their objection in every case has been that negotiating with any such group merely perpetuates the problems that we have had dealing with Indigenous spokesmen whose sole approach to these matters is one variation or another of victimhood. The context in which discussions of this kind take place is one of an unconditional and nonnegotiable demands for reparations because of alleged past gross misconduct of the Canadian authorities.