Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Can you repeat the question, please?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  One of the things we're pushing as first nations communities is that we hire aboriginal teachers. Those aboriginal teachers are being taught by the same education system. We're not preparing them. That's my answer.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I talk about my parents quite a bit. This is very specific: my father taught me how to fish one day, and he showed me how to cast the line. I kept doing that, and he went and stood over there, where he knew he would catch fish. I was getting quite bored. I was getting impatient, and I thought, “I'm not enjoying this”, but I kept doing it anyway.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I agree with Nathan that we have performed partnerships. There was a history made a year ago in Winnipeg. The University of Winnipeg had a memorandum of understanding with the southeast tribal council. They asked me to name the building where the self-governance program was going to be.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Meegwetch for asking that question. It has been a challenge to maintain my language and my culture because I decided I was going to live in Winnipeg. When I was going through high school and when I was facing racism and discrimination, I didn't want to be with aboriginal people.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  When we form partnerships with other organizations, to me that means we're going to work together. For many years, since the era of the residential school system, we have walked not together but away from each other. Aboriginal people and non-aboriginal people don't know each other in Canada, and we need to close that gap.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Bonjour. [Witness speaks in her native language.] I think I need another PhD to figure out the technical system. I say meegwetch for inviting me to come and speak this morning. I have been at the university for 22 years, so I think I might know what I'm going to talk about today.