Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. One of the things in Nova Scotia that we have now is legislation that recognizes the Mi'kmaq-L'nu language, which is a great thing that's more recent. But what we don't have...and as we have this language, some of it is going to supporting the indigenous languages in our own communities in Mi’kma’ki, Unama’ki, and beyond.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for this question. What I would like to see and what is present and available now are not in sync. That's why I keep saying that we need to have a better fit between those. What we're aspiring for is self-determining, flourishing communities that have, want and are retaining all of the foundations of their knowledge through their languages and through the kinds of learning processes that I talk about as holistic, lifelong, experiential and community activated, in working through language and culture and working with the spiritual world views and so on, but what they are getting right now is an education in our communities.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Kwe. Halu. Greetings. Bonjour. I'm honoured today to be invited to speak to you on unceded Algonquin territories. I'm here to recommend to your committee the continuing resourcing of indigenous education, learning from indigenous perspectives of success, and a trans-systemic alignment and commitment to indigenous peoples' knowledges as the foundation of first nations' learning and success.