 Our history is one that we need all Canada to know and it's not the history that we were taught in school. I had no idea about what to expect when I was coming but I'm glad I came because it was an eye-opening experience for me. I think it's cool to learn about history especially about like Aboriginal history. It actually moved me to tears the first time and at that point when I realized that it was bringing up those kind of emotions I went no this is something that I want to be involved in. It's a hot topic across the country right now and I think there's a big readiness and willingness among many people both Indigenous and non-Indigenous to have that conversation. The Blanketer exercise is about our history but I really think that we all have a role to play going forward in Canada's story. There's a reason why every people's of the four corners of the globe are here now and it's because we need each other. Relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people sharing this land right now are at a critical juncture and there have been many junctures like this I think throughout history where there's a moment that can be seized and it can become a constructive moment or it can become a moment that further divides us and separates us and creates more suffering. But for us to take advantage of those moments we have to be talking to each other and that's what the Blanketer exercise does. The reality is like when we made first contact with the people we were all in relations. We were all in the helping relations and along the way it changed. The exercise will help them understand how First Nations Inuit and later Métis peoples lost access to their land and what impact this has had on the people and their communities. How Indigenous peoples went from using and occupying all of the land we now call Canada to a situation where reserves or lands reserved for Indians amount to only one half of one percent of Canada's land mass. It will also help them to understand how Indigenous peoples have always resisted assimilation or being absorbed into the mainstream society and how they continue to do so. There's a need to redress some of the wrongs that have been done. I think the most important part of it is teaching new things to other people around us. It's really important that we share these things. You never know where the connections can lead and how it can help other people. I'd recommend certainly that if people get an opportunity to participate in one of these to take it but also to try and make yourself more knowledgeable.