First, just let me state that I'm not against looking and examining what are the best practices on this particular issue. However, as I stated in my opening remarks, the centre of excellence was not discussed during the consultations. This is something that was brought up by the government as an afterthought and presented as part of this. I think the centre of excellence funding could go, as I said, to the badly needed programs that are poorly underfunded.
Let's take a look at education in on-reserve schools. It would take 28 years for the quality of education for children and youth in reserve schools to catch up with what's found in the rest of Canadian society. We don't need another paternalistic institution. We need to be able to, in that process of reconciliation that I was talking about, look at our traditional governance structures where everyone had rights, everyone was equal, and everyone was protected, instead of this imposition of you're not Indian enough—“Indian” is the legal term under Canada's laws—and this whole impact of colonization on the mentality. It's more complicated. I know I'm running out of time and I'm trying to think of something, so I will just end it right there.