You're right to suppose that I used the word "integrate" deliberately; if you want to call what the White Paper proposed, and what I'm here endorsing "assimilation", then so be it. But, to be clear, I am arguing that "integration" is a good thing. I also reject the claim that integration "has been tried for the past 150 years" -- the Indian Act explicitly rejects integration as a goal. So "assimilation", if you want to call it that, has _not_ been tried, and hence has not failed. Subjugation, domination, elimination, _these_ have been tried (and failed), and are no part of what I'm recommending.