I'd just like to make one more comment. I just want to mention a quick story for my wrap-up of why it's so important to tell my story as a Mi'kmaq person and have the artifacts to help me tell the correct story. We were influenced so much during the time when our ceremonies and everything else were looked at as witchcraft. Our artifacts were looked at as costumes and very beautiful decorations.
I just lost my headdress last year in France when I took the kids there. They sailed the Atlantic Ocean from Halifax to France on a tall ship, and somewhere along the way it disappeared. It was my headdress and vest. I couldn't find them.
It's still beautiful, and people love it. Why is it so important for us? Every one of you here has ancestry somewhere that connects back to your home country, and you use the story all the time. How many times have you seen a movie in which a person loses themselves, and they go on a trip back home, whether it's Scotland, Ireland or England, and they come back as a new person afterwards, after they find themselves? As a Mi'kmaq person, where do I go? I'm in Mi'kmaq territory. My grandkids cannot go anywhere else if I don't do my part to tell the real story of what's left here in Mi'gma'gi. It's the same with the Algonquin, the Cree and the Dene—all of us.
All this time Canada has looked at us as one group of the same people, but I have a responsibility. There is no movie that I can make about a kid who goes to England or Spain and finds himself. If I don't do my part here, and we don't do this part, that kid is going to be even more lost. We know the stories of suicide today and the people we've lost. We all have a responsibility to make a really positive solution.
I wanted to just close with that story. Thank you.