Can I add something very briefly?
Here in the Northwest Territories there are just public schools. We don't have any reserves. What's good for the settler Canadians has to be good for the Inuvialuit, the Métis and the Dene.
A few years ago, we decided it was going to be mandatory for high school students, in order to graduate, to take a northern studies course, which is a course to study the geography and the different peoples of the Northwest Territories. There was a huge protest about it, but we held firm. It's with amazing pride that so many people can say they know who the Inuvialuit are because they took this course—especially those raised in Yellowknife who never get a chance to go outside the city boundaries to an Inuvialuit, a Gwich'in, Saulteaux, Tlicho or Dehcho community.
From there, we went into adding the history and legacy of residential schools. That is also going to be mandatory. You can take it in Grade 10, 11 or 12, but you have to take it. First we teach about getting to know the indigenous people and then about what happened to them.
It has worked well for us. It's supported by everyone. I think everybody realized that the children, the high school students and the university students who leave the north to go to Dalhousie, McGill and all the universities and schools across the country, have come back and said they were really proud to be able to say they're from Yellowknife and that they know who the Inuvialuit and Gwich'in and Tlicho are.
There's tremendous pride that comes from it because there are actually people.... There was one member of the legislature who was elected a few years ago who admitted he had never been outside the boundaries of Yellowknife. He had never visited any community other than Yellowknife, and here he was, given the power to vote on legislation, to allocate budgets and vote on money for 33 other communities of which he knew absolutely nothing. So this was—