Thank you for that.
What you're saying is music to my ears too, because I honestly hadn't really thought about using Rangers and other wildlife knowledge keepers as teachers. That's because, as I said before, I'm always trying to decolonize my own thoughts. Yes, I think that would be.... We need that shift to happen now so that knowledge is passed on. That's the thing.
What is the measure of success for education? A lot of people don't realize, especially for northern people, that it is survival on the land. When indigenous children learn that, how empowering it is. That's success. We need to shift and use those resources available to us to pass on those teachings. I absolutely agree with that.
I see that some shift is happening in legislation that I think is helpful. For example, there's the Accessible Canada Act on disability. It used to be that a harm had to happen to a disabled person before something was done, but now, with the Accessible Canada Act—it's also called the barrier-free Canada act—it's proactive, and we're perceiving harms and trying to get ahead of it so that the harm doesn't have to happen first. I use this as an example with you policy-makers so that these shifts can happen, and shifting what that measure of success looks like for indigenous children needs to happen now.
I thank you not only for that question, but for everything you've said and suggested. I'll give that a lot of thought.
Thank you.