Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the presenters who are here today.
I think I'm the only MP who attended Indian residential school. The language that was spoken there was the strap. Everybody who spoke anything other than English was strapped.
My parents spoke three languages. They spoke the Métis French, they spoke English, and they spoke the Dene language, their indigenous language. By the time I left school, I could speak only two, even though I didn't speak English until I started school at six years old.
My children can speak only one. Now, if I want to go back and try to learn the languages, I can go to a nice facility and learn English and I can go out to a nice facility and learn French, but there is no place for me to go to learn the indigenous Dene language. That's the same for my children, so I listened with interest to Dr. Lukaniec when she talked about funding parity. I believe it's going to be a real challenge for us to save some of these languages.
I just want to ask you if you could talk a little more about what it's going to take, compared to what's being invested in the French and English languages, to save some of the indigenous languages.