I'm not entirely sure what Ms. Balkisoon's expectations are, but I reckon they're along the lines of getting more Indigenous and non-white reporters into newsrooms and the media. 

Fair enough - diversity is obviously a defensible ambition, but there are a couple of problems. One, there likely aren't enough boots-on-the-ground to fill any expectations or diversity "quotas" in newsrooms. Two - and this is the bigger problem - ad revenues are shrinking and the "media" and "newsrooms" are getting smaller, not bigger. 

Combine those two factors with the chill that's now descending on anyone tasked with covering indigenous issues in the mainstream media and it's going to have the expected effect: Those issues just ain't gonna to get covered. Editors are going to assign their (non-indigenous) reporters other stories to avoid charges of cultural appropriation. Newsrooms have many things to cover and not enough human resources to cover them. That's a bigger problem than "appropriation."