We're just one flight school that has gone through the challenges and is able to create a great environment. I honestly believe this can be created anywhere in Canada if we want to increase indigenous participation.
With indigenous people, we're so deeply rooted in our communities and in our families that it's difficult to go away to school; it's really difficult to leave your family. Therefore, if we can create a co-operative learning environment, not a competitive one where if you don't make the grade you're out, which in a lot of mainstream schools is the case, by creating that type of environment, it automatically fosters co-operation and community. We actually call our school “a community within a community”. The students go to school together, they live together and they share their different cultures. Thus it's part of nation-building as well for our people, and it has really worked.