Thank you, Mr. Chair.
For my first question, I would like both gentlemen to respond, if they could.
What I'm concerned about here more than anything else is that we will establish the day off for federally regulated industries and employees and we won't grow in our understanding. I say that because of my own experience. Before Prime Minister Harper apologized for the residential school system in this country, I didn't know about it. I'm not a particularly unengaged human being. I was involved in municipal council in my home for 26 years. I didn't know about it.
I have to tell you, Chief Piétacho, that when I hear the stories, they are so compelling, so powerful and so moving that they motivate me to do more and to educate more to help people understand what we really did to first nations people in this land.
I wonder if you would comment on whether, instead of just a holiday that gives a bunch of federal employees and federally regulated industries a day off, you would be interested in the notion of having the national day for truth and reconciliation include education, understanding and personal growth for people to understand what we have done to first nations people and culture in this land.