I was saying that these people know the value of treatment. They know the value of having that treatment in your home community, your home area, because it has happened before. A good way to solve the problem is to take them out and send them away: is this what we’re proposing to do again? That’s why some of the aboriginal groups are trying to put healing centres in their home region, their home territory, something that this government has to pay close attention to.
The apology and all that went on yesterday will never close the chapter on this book. As Mr. Menicoche said yesterday, this is a chapter that should never be closed. This is something that should always be taught in the schools to the children, because they come to appreciate and realize what people before them have gone through. This is something that should always be taught, because if we have to learn anything from dark days in our history, we have to ensure that those days never happen again.