Manitoba Métis Federation President David Chartrand is planning a consultation tour across the Prairies to gain insight on how Métis '60s Scoop survivors can be compensated and what reconciliation efforts would best help them.

Métis survivors were completely left out of the class-action settlement last October for First Nations and Inuit people. MMF Southwest Region Cabinet Minister Will Goodon says there's actually a silver lining.

"This will give us the opportunity to say exactly what happened to us, exactly what happened to the survivors and families," says Goodon. "The voices of everyone who's affected is going to be captured, so we can present to the federal government and the provinces who were involved in this, that there needs to be some redress of some sort."

Goodon says the consultation process will have to include safe guards, especially when trauma is at the root of things.

"We need to make sure there's safe places for people to talk, and there's going to have to be a very full stature of how this is done," Goodon says. "I know President Chartrand has reached out to some '60s scoop survivors to say 'let's put this together properly and do it well'. The Métis nation is right across the prairies, so there's going to have to be discussion on who and where this is going to be done."

Goodon notes the MMF will be working with MMF governments across the prairies to make sure everything is done in a collaborative way, but says at the heart of the issue is the welfare and well-being of the survivors and their families.

If settlements were to result from the consulation tour, Goodon notes Chartrand has stated the MMF will not be taking any percentage of any future settlements.

"Any monies that the MMF negotiates nationally or provincially will go to survivors. He made that very clear on a number of occasions," says Goodon.

The '60s Scoop occurred from 1951 to 1991 when provincial child-welfare authorities removed thousands of Indigenous children from their families, and under federal jurisdiction, they were placed with non-Indigenous families.