Thank you, Mr. Serré.
Thank you so much to all of our witnesses for being here with us today to share your testimony and answer some of our questions.
I found today's testimony extremely touching. It brought me back to my teaching days. I taught ethics and religious culture in a Quebec school. One of the focuses or units that I would teach was gender education. I would teach my students about the gender spectrum and the sexual orientation spectrum because I knew that I had students from different backgrounds, and there were members of the 2SLGBTQ community, and I wanted them to feel like they had a safe space. If someone was at least mentioning it in their classroom—which I don't think other teachers were necessarily doing at the time— they could speak to me out of class and could also teach the rest of the students to be good human beings and to treat each other with respect.
I don't know how aware you might be of the way that different provinces handle their education systems and what the curriculum is in different provinces, but how important is it to include gender education in the classroom so that these students hear it from teachers who are doing it in a very respectful manner and at least educating all of the class about issues that may come up or things that members of the 2SLGBTQ community face?
Anyone can answer the question. I have a question afterwards as well.
I guess we can start with Fae Johnstone.