Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I too want to add my voice to the Members and to talk about education. A couple of days ago, when I
brought my young son to Mildred Hall School, my son was talking to me and saying that at the school they were learning the Dene laws. I said, oh, what kind of laws are you learning? He said, well, we’re learning about the Dene laws. I said, well, what laws do you know right now? He said, Dad, Dene law number three. I said, well, what’s number three? He said, Dene Law number three is love one another as much as possible. And I was going, oh, my God. Mildred Hall, I want to thank them for all the teachers and that, that they’re teaching about the Dene laws. That’s a law that my son is talking to me. That’s a very strong law and a very powerful law. It’s a good law to remind me. That is part of our education system today in the North here that they are teaching in our schools. How do we practice that law in today’s society? It’s very hard, very difficult. Yet our younger kids are learning this and we have to show them.
People in the North are listening to us. The Aboriginal governments are listening to us. They’re talking about us while we’re in this room talking about them. Something that we need to look at in our education field is that we come a long way from off the land into the world of computers. We really have to thank our teachers, our parents, the elders and the teachers today for helping us.
I also want to thank colleagues like us here, that day in day out have to be conscious of what we’re leading our people to.