Thank you.
The work that needs to be done is not just with non-indigenous Canadians. Part of the work is with indigenous people as well, with indigenous families. As an example, it's only about four years now since I found out that some of my mother's relatives were in residential school from 1860 on. For over 130 years my family was in residential schools, and it was only when my mother turned 80 that she finally told us that the reason she never talks about her childhood is that she didn't have any. She spent almost 10 years in a residential school, and she only told us when she was 80 years old.
We still don't know very much about what she went through, but there's so much learning and healing to be done within our own communities. We need, as indigenous people, to mark and commemorate, and to heal together as well. It's not just non-indigenous people who need to engage, although we need that; the greatest healing that needs to be done is within the families of residential school survivors.