Hey all, it's been a week of rest and relaxation and now I am ready to get back on track and re-join the world. The Canada I have known and loved has moved to a different space, and we won't know how far to the right we are going until the next couple of years have passed. Hopefully, it will not create too much change in places we need to protect, like our First Nation territorial agreements or land management process.
For now, we have an incredible amount of work to do with getting our youth ready for the coming decades, we have to work side by side with them to ensure they can access the support and encouragement we have to offer. We have a very young population and that means that there is a lot of risk, but also a lot of love that can be identified to help them stay in school, set life goals, and learn to do things differently than they have been done in the past. We must rekindle a close connection to the land, and teach them the beauty of their history and heritage, language is an important element that will be lost if we do not pay it proper attention, and forming family and community is a duty that we can not leave to chance.
I hope that you will work with me, and with them, to make a solid future a real possibility. We can no longer languish in what might have been and used to be's, we have to move to what is and will be through sheer will and determination. We can do this, we have the power within to accomplish everything we put our minds to, I am counting on you to support our youth, and me, and anyone else willing to take the initiative to teach them how to make their dreams a reality, Chi Miigwetch, Cynthia...
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