Thank you.
Just briefly coming back to the question about an apology and what that means, I do think that probably we have an understanding about the systemic nature of violence. There are individual acts of violence, but I think we understand that it comes from a systemic base, so maybe we need to view an apology in that way as well.
To verbalize an apology and to have a formal thing is very important, but it has to be ongoing. I think that's what you're saying to us today: that an apology has to be acted out in terms of the programs, the resources, the laws, the ways things are...to deal with the inequalities, right? So it's also systemic.
Really, the question I have, because we're coming to the end of this session, is this: how do you feel about the future? Are you at a point where you feel that although things are pretty bad, there is a greater awareness, and therefore you feel optimistic about what might happen, say, within the next decade, whatever governments we're dealing with, whether they're civic, provincial or federal? Or are you actually feeling that it's going to get worse? I'm just very curious to know what your own sense is.
We're here and now; we understand the reality of what here and now is. But how do you yourselves see what the future might be in terms of how it's tough but it's going to get better because there is greater awareness? Or is it that we're going to sink down still more and things are going to get worse before they get better?