Of course, and in fact, I just want to share some history. This is far prior to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 calls to action.
These recommendations happen and we're continuously having to repeat history, and it goes back to the the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples in what you now call Canada. These same recommendations were heard then, and we're still having to tell our story now.
With the RCAP recommendations, we established the AET strategy. The aboriginal education and training strategy was established in 1989-90 and incorporated in 1991. Laurentian University was a recipient of that AET strategy, and that strategy included the recruitment, retention and increased success rates of aboriginal people in post-secondary education. That included colleges and universities, and that also included the reclamation of our languages.
I can speak to this very eloquently because I was the one who was leading it. We strived to ensure that the reclamation of our cultural identity was celebrated and that it was recognized, just as the francophone population demands success and demands that they have authority to deliver their programs, their education. The problem is that we're working in your system, in your institutions, and you're still not recognizing our form of education, our form of governance, our language, our culture, our birthing right, our inherent right to take care of our own people.
That will always be an issue and we will continue to have these conversations, and I hope to goodness that when my five grandchildren are at my stage of life, they're not having to continue to educate other citizens in what you now call Canada.
You can see my passion about this.