The Manitoba government established a Review Committee on Indian and Métis Adoptions and Placements.
In 1984, "After reviewing the file of every Native child who had been adopted by an out-of-province family in 1981, Judge Kimelman stated: 'having now completed the review of the files... the Chairman now states unequivocally that cultural genocide has been taking place in a systematic, routine manner'.
[4] The report had 109 recommendations that address issues in the existing Child Welfare system in Manitoba.
The need to avoid the possibility of the committee being used merely to silence the hue and cry raised by the native organizations was clear.
This study is not to be a whitewash of the child welfare system[5]In 1982, no one, except the Indian and the Metis people, really believed the reality- that native children were routinely being shipped to adoption homes in the United States and other provinces in Canada.