Thank you. I'm glad to have another opportunity to question, but I've got to think of where to go here right now.
I sense that what you've talked about, Ms. Lockhart, is of primary importance.
I think of an elder who I used to respect a lot. He was a drinker, but what people would say about him was he's good on the land. That concept for males in society, for men who got their respect and dignity from what they did and accomplished, is one of the problems we have here now. In the society we have where your respect and dignity comes from the fatness of your wallet, and you may have gotten that from one source or the other, the dignity that aboriginal males have got from traditional practices has been very much taken away from them one way or the other.
It's like the caribou issue last year. Actually it's like a number of issues I've dealt with where males' role in this northern part of this world, where we still are hunters and gatherers and it's a very important part of our psychological makeup and it's a very important part of who we are, has been downgraded one way or the other.
As I'm the only male voice here today I thought I'd better throw that in and ask you for your comments about what you think about the role of men in our society, aboriginal men in their society, and how important that is in dealing with violence and the family and dealing with unity in the family.