I think it can. I know of and appreciate the efforts you've been doing personally in your own private member's bill on the declaration. I think that Six Nations has already come out and supported you when you first started this so it can be one step. On this whole path of reconciliation, and referencing the fact that it is Orange Shirt Day and we're having our own orange shirt session tomorrow with our residential school survivors, I need to thank those residential school survivors for having the courage to step forward and tell the truth to the commissioners. Now that that's there, we're on the reconciliation. It's up to each and everyone of us, all of you as MPs, up to you as individuals, to ask what reconciliation means to you and what am I going to do to ensure there is reconciliation for the people.
It is because of those residential school survivors that the political agenda in this country now has our issues at the forefront. I listen to Your Morning every morning on CTV News. They're talking about the missing and murdered indigenous women's inquiry and they're talking about bad water in New Brunswick. Our issues are now front and centre, and we have to thank those survivors for doing that. As I said in my presentation, we also have to work together in partnership to move forward in reconciliation. We have to quit sitting here pointing fingers and blaming each other saying: you didn't do this, you didn't do that. Now is the time to move forward. We can't let those residential school survivors down, and we have to move forward for the future generations who are looking to us to do that.
Phil and I have have been working on this for a long time, and we're ready to move on to other things. We have to give hope and inspiration to our young people, and we have to do that by being responsible adults, parliamentarians, and leaders. We have to do what's right. We have to do what's right for our people. We've suffered an injustice over here for so many years, hundreds of years, and now we are on the path. We should support anything that is going to lead us on to that path of reconciliation, including implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.