The first Aboriginal people survey was ran in 1991 with great success,and this survey made it easy for the state to review some of their policy toward the indigenous settlers throughout Canada. According Liam Midzain-Gobin, the knowledge from this survey is used by the state to impose an identity on the Aboriginal people and to enforce the authority of the state towards the indigenous settlers. He expressed his opinion on how the state would have used the data from the survey for the benefit of the indigenous people by making policies which will positively effect the settler in an area. Liam believes that settler colonialism can be viewed as an international phenomenon, and can be a pathway for reconciliation in Canada. He acknowledged the state as a settler institution that can change the indigenous settlers relationship with the state if handled as an international relationship.

The data collection process is interesting, because the state produces the survey questions in a way to still control the outcome of the survey. These questions are designed by the state to produce policies that will reinforce control of the population and total dependence on the state by the indigenous settlers. Although most of the information that Liam presented were inconclusive, he explained that the research had not been concluded.

How public opinion is been gathered and presented by the state is very similar to my research area, the way people are been systematically structured by the state and policies made towards a single direction that favours the state. The power to control data and to communicate information about the people or an area of interest is the same with my research area.

Liam responded well to the questions, but because the research is still ongoing some of the question could not be answered, but I would have wanted to know the possibility of total reconciliation between the state and the indigenous settlers.