Even bannock is culturally invasive ...

So, he was speaking to a group primarily focussed on improving relations with, and the situation of, the First Nations, and he stressed the idea of bread, and using this idea to guide our discussions, because bread is so universal.  All cultures have some form of bread.

In fact, not all cultures *do* have some form of bread, and the West Coast First Nations are one of those who don't, at least, not originally.  I mean, I love bannock and fry bread, and they are delicious, but they are not original.  They were introduced once we started trying to repair the damage we had caused by limiting hunting and gathering, and tried to replace that nutritionally diverse supply with barrels of flour.  (It's probably a partial cause of the obesity and diabetes crisis.  But we'll leave that, for the moment.)  Bread is common in agricultural societies, but not in pastoral or hunter-gatherer situations.  The west coast has no native cereal grains and, while it has some starchy root vegetables, they are primarily roasted, rather than ground into a flour.

So stressing bread as a universal, to this demographic, is ironic, and more than slightly culturally insensitive ...