Thank you, Mrs. Gill.
When I think of decolonizing, I really think of revitalization. It's less about deconstructing and more about constructing and revitalizing the ways of learning through experience that are very much aligned with indigenous ways of doing, in terms of learning and development.
On your question on and around the comparison between on reserve to off reserve, I think that generally, if you expose children to an environment in which they can learn about the world around them, where the land is the land and the water is the water, it gives them an opportunity to learn in a way that is familiar to them, in a way that is aligned with them culturally and ideologically.
With Connected North, we bring in technology to leverage that experiential learning. Sure, we're not doing it specifically on land and water—well, in some cases we are, actually—but we're not doing it specifically within that context. We're in classrooms, but we're actually connecting people with teachers—indigenous teachers, in some cases—who are transferring knowledge in a way that is familiar to the children we're reaching out to. It really goes back to revitalizing the principles of learning and development that are very much aligned with an indigenous world view.
In a nutshell, it's again not about decolonizing but about bringing in what we know works, what's been axed out by the Indian Act, and more importantly what puts these kids back on the path to knowing who they are and where they come from.