[Member spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:]
Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses who have come to speak to us today, because they are speaking the absolute truth.
I'd like to speak in Inuktitut, but for the questions I have, I don't know them in Inuktitut, so I'm going to ask them in English.
[English]
I very much appreciate all of your interventions. You've made it very clear to us that the impacts of colonial policies remain and that our students are still experiencing intergenerational trauma.
I love how you're all trying to make sure that as parliamentarians we're seeing these realities and that in order for our students to become healthy, productive adults, we can't judge that only on academic success. We also have to focus on their well-being, on the way that I think first nations, Métis and Inuit used to raise our children.
We used to raise them to make sure they have love and kindness and are wanting to help to protect the environment and the wildlife, that they mattered and that we show respect at all times. With the residential school system teaching indigenous peoples anger, pain and abuse—to force them to suffer such abuse—it's no wonder that we continue to see the impacts of intergenerational trauma. I still experience it myself.
To ensure we are moving towards producing healthy, productive indigenous peoples, I wonder if you agree that maybe we need to be incorporating an education system that talks about love and forgiveness from the indigenous peoples' teachings, rather than only trying to ensure there's academic success. The reason love and forgiveness are so important is that our parents and our grandparents were robbed of them, but how can they teach them if they were robbed of them? That's my question. Do we need to talk more about what indigenous peoples went through and try to make sure we're working towards love and forgiveness in our education system?
Maybe all three could answer. I'd appreciate it.