Yes. There's so much to think about, to ponder, and to get across, but in terms of the aboriginal population--the urban aboriginal population--we do need access to cultural teachings. I come from a community where my language is on the endangered list of becoming extinct, so what do I tell my kids? I'll teach them what I know, but that can only go so far. To tell them to go back to my community and learn all of that...it's not entirely possible all the time.
So for getting access to cultural teachings wherever you are in Canada, we do that at the grassroots level already anyway, but having some support is always helpful.
I'm thankful for the support of Kiwassa House. They've given us rooms in their building to have meetings and whatnot. There's the Native Education College and all these places that are reaching out to the community and providing free space for a little while.
Ending systemic violence against aboriginal people and aboriginal women is another issue. Providing affordable housing for all people is another that comes to mind. Also, there's the issue of keeping families together. We're assuming that we're talking about aboriginal families and we're assuming that they're all together, but a lot of times the children are in foster care and a lot of times parents don't see them until they're 18 or whatever. So it's about ending that cycle of taking the kids away, you know, the residential school.