Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just to speak to the motion very briefly, Mr. Speaker, in my research, there were 23 various residential schools and institutions in the Northwest Territories. According to the research I have done, there were over 131 years of the residential school history in the Northwest Territories. According to the Roman Catholic records, there were over 10,000 students in the Northwest Territories that attended these residential school systems, the most being in Inuvik where 2,500 students attended the Grollier school system.
Mr. Speaker, families are now being affected by it, and families are taking initiative, and communities are taking initiative, to start a healing process. Community workshops are slowly springing up in the communities in terms of dealing with the impacts the residential schools
have had on our people. Ministers and MLAs and leaders are taking note of the impacts, and are dealing with them in their own ways through their own departments.
Mr. Speaker, children now are starting to really understand the impacts of residential schools, and sometimes they're asking questions that sometimes as adults we have a hard time explaining to them.
I would like to thank the Members for allowing me to speak on this sensitive and delicate issue. Thank you.