On colonization, I would say what I heard my aunt say just a month ago. Our first nation has a municipal table with Lambton Shores. Obviously we're still getting over the effects of the Ipperwash crisis. I brought my aunt in to speak to the mayor and all of his colleagues and elected council members so they would understand the effects of the residential schools in my own community. The mayor and all of his council members, wards, were actually appalled to know that people who lived 10 miles down the road were taken when they were very small children.
My aunt went through a residential school, and she said, you know, I never knew how to love my children. That's what I raised, and those generational effects are still there today. It took away the ability of our grandparents to show love. When you can't show love in a family, it creates all sorts of social problems in that family.
So the effects of colonization, not only with the residential schools and other things, are still clearly felt in our communities today.