With some of the emergency response programs, social services gets involved in this kind of situation, and we are worried that if they remove a child because of fear of a mother drinking, but without helping the whole family and the mother, then we are setting up a condition again of Sixties Scoop, and we know that that has not worked, either.

As most of you are also aware, NWAC's research has revealed that aboriginal women and girls are more vulnerable to violence due to impacts of past and current state policies, such as the residential schools, the “sixties scoop”, and the child welfare system, all connected to poverty and racism.

You know, there are only two repatriation programs across the country, despite the harms of the “sixties scoop” and now the multi-generational effects of child welfare.

If nothing is done, thousands of European performers whose performances were recorded in the late fifties and sixties would lose all of their contractual royalty income or statutory remuneration for broadcasting and communication to the public over the next ten years.

Moreover, for the thousands of anonymous session musicians who were at the peak of their careers in the late fifties and sixties, 'single equitable remuneration' for the broadcasting of their recordings is often the only source of income left from their artistic career.

In addition to the technical innovations concerning ‘Ail blanc de Lomagne’, numerous events have been held since the beginning of the 1960s: the first competition for the most beautiful bunch of white garlic was held in 1961, the first fair organised around the garlic competition was held in 1963 in partnership with the Agricultural Show, the syndicat d'initiative (an association for the development of tourism) and the municipality of Beaumont-de-Lomagne, under the aegis of Montauban's Agricultural Services; since then, the white garlic competition takes place every year at the Beaumont-de-Lomagne September Fair.