[Member spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:]
Thank you, Marilène.
I have many questions. I'm trying to determine which is the most pertinent question, and if they will have the answer. Has any work been done on it regarding schools and education?
Education is delivered in the white man's way of teaching. We indigenous people have a low graduation rate because it's not in our culture, nor our language. It's a foreign way of thinking. We know that way too many do not graduate and way too many drop out.
If those who are not completing their education are hunters or sewers or artists, can we look at those applications and educate them in a way to make their own living? As they grow older, they don't plan to go back to school. They don't plan to graduate. The education system is behind them.
Many do not practise traditional skills like hunting or sewing, because they're not given the opportunity to learn that. They are not even taught that. Education is very important. Learning in a white person's language is not the only way to obtain a good education. We indigenous people have our own culture, our own language. Our lives and our beings have to be present in the school system in our homeland.
You have to ask yourself—because you're not indigenous and you do not look indigenous; you look like others—where in your workplace you encourage your superiors and your co-workers to include more of the indigenous language and culture in the school system. How would you encourage that? How can you encourage that to happen more?
I ask those questions to Jonathan and Rory.