What percentage of Aboriginal people are Métis?

Discover Canada records this in one direct sentence. The guide writes: About 65% of the Aboriginal people are First Nations, while 30% are Métis and 4% Inuit. The percentage the test wants is therefore 30%.

All three Aboriginal groups have named percentages. Discover Canada commits Aboriginal peoples in Canada to THREE specific group percentages: 65% First Nations, 30% Métis, and 4% Inuit. So the Métis are the second-largest Aboriginal group by share, between the First Nations majority and the Inuit minority. The three percentages add to 99% — close to 100%, with rounding accounting for the small remainder.

The Métis are a distinct people. Discover Canada writes: "The Métis are a distinct people of mixed Aboriginal and European ancestry, the majority of whom live in the Prairie provinces. They come from both French- and English-speaking backgrounds and speak their own dialect, Michif." So the 30% figure represents people of mixed Aboriginal and European descent, with a distinct identity and a unique dialect (Michif). They are concentrated in the Prairie provinces — Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.

Métis history is foundational to Canada. Discover Canada writes that Louis Riel — described elsewhere as "a hero, a defender of Métis rights and the father of Manitoba" — led two Métis uprisings (1869 Fort Garry and 1885 in Saskatchewan). The first uprising led directly to the establishment of Manitoba as a province in 1870. So the 30% Métis share of Aboriginal peoples in Canada represents both a present-day population and a community whose political history shaped the formation of the western provinces. The Inuit are described separately as living in "small, scattered communities across the Arctic" — the 4% smallest of the three Aboriginal groups. First Nations make up 65% — the majority. Together, the three groups have constitutional recognition under the Canadian Constitution, which "recognizes and affirms the Aboriginal and treaty rights of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples." So when the test asks the Métis share of Aboriginal peoples in Canada, the source-precise answer is 30%.

The question is testing whether new citizens know the Métis percentage of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Discover Canada commits to one figure: 30%. The right test answer matches that.

The wrong answer choices each pick a different percentage. "20%" is too low. "25%" is also too low. "35%" is too high. Only 30% — the figure the source explicitly names — matches.