Finally, the results of our interviews lead The observation that voting is correlated us to think that the voting practices of with age and level of formal education- Aboriginal people in Winnipeg could soon the third of the four broad explanatory change. [...] There- not equivalent to the ratio of potential fore, it is not possible to predict accurately Aboriginal voters to total voters in a rid- the percentage of Aboriginal people in any ing, because a much higher proportion of one electoral district in the future. [...] Second, this kind of representation leaders in advancing arguments about the is important in ensuring that issues of necessity and the merits of recognizing particular importance to the disadvan- difference, and designing political sys- taged group can be effectively raised in tems in such a way as to affirm both dif- the legislature, because ". representatives ferences and a shared identity (see, [...] Kymlicka members of a disadvantaged group in a (1995, p.32) argues that ". there is increas- legislative body ". confirms that members ing concern that the political process is of this group are capable of that function 'unrepresentative' in the sense that it fails and expected to fill it", which then ". in- to reflect the diversity of the population. [...] The imposition of the band feel a strong sense of social exclusion- council governments met the opposition that they are not a part of the dominant of many communities" (Monture-Angus, culture and institutions of Canadian soci- 1995, p. 182.