The introduction to Book I of the report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism published on 8 October 1967, states: .
This last statement is reinforced by the Honourable Jean Chrétien, Minister of Indian Affairs, in Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy (the White Paper) presented in 1969 when he states that "the Indian culture can be preserved, perpetuated and developed only by the Indian people themselves".