I do think that we really need all of the civil service to understand what reconciliation is, especially in DFO where the pressure on the resource to actually do reconciliation is real. I don't know that there is a departmental strategy on educating staff on reconciliation and what that means. I do think it will mean not working in silos of fisheries, science and management. It's much more holistic than that.
I am pleased to hear that there have been recent efforts by the Department of Justice and CIRNAC to give briefings and presentations for the independent fish harvester organizations. I think that's a step in the right direction, and one that is probably 15 to 20 years late.
I think that really we all need to be treaty people and have that education. My children are now learning about the treaties in their elementary school, and I think that that education is probably fulsome than we have in the Canadian government, and particularly within the fishing sector.