Canadian Heritage committee  Please go ahead, Rod, and I'll chime in.

Canadian Heritage committee  I would just say briefly that the other aspect of what we do is that when we recognize a gap, we try to close it. We work not only with the folks who are socially, economically and racially marginalized but also with the incumbent society—the dominant caste and the privileged—to ensure they understand the historical context and the ways in which folks are reaching out, and can then say, “What is allyship?

Canadian Heritage committee  I thought I was. I'm sorry about that. I want to thank the chair and the committee for giving us this opportunity. Further to what Roderick shared, we want to include the reality of the nooses, for instance, that were found on construction sites in the GTA last year, and of blackface, which seems to resurface from time to time in the news.