Canadian Politics Today

"The uncontroverted evidence of the plaintiff's experts is that the loss of their Aboriginal identity left the children fundamentally disoriented, with a reduced ability to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. The loss of Aboriginal identity resulted in psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, unemployment, violence and numerous suicides," he said, siding with the plaintiffs.

I'm confused about this justification. He says the loss of Aboriginal identity resulted in all kinds of things which we KNOW are statistically much more common on reserves. I.e, psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, unemployment, violence and suicides. This seems bizarre to me. On top of that he's claiming these people lost their aboriginal identity. If that was the case they'd all be leading happy normal whitebread Canadian lives, wouldn't they? So clearly they didn't lose their aboriginal identity.