And I'm going to So, okay, we're here. We're here. We're here. Welcome. Thank you. Congratulations.

Thanks. This was a labor of love? It was a labor of love. Where are we? We are in

Sydney Smith Hall at the University of Toronto, St George campus and this is room 3067 the Indigenous Politics Collaboratory.

It is a tentative name. It's tentative because this research lab space as an

indigenous research lab space is being built to be collaborative across the faculty of arts and science,

not just here only in the Department of Political Science, where we are on the third floor.

So I'm bringing folks in to help name the lab permanently, more permanently,

and also to build a research team that will be consisting of grad students,

undergrads, and faculty. So I'm really excited. So I'm happy you're here too.

Thanks for all your help and support in this process.

And yeah, it's time to get the show on the road, but here.

It's exciting.

It is a beautiful space. This I guess in some ways like we're in like the representation business.

It sounds a little smarmier than when it comes out than what I'm intending to say, but in the in so much of media today is based around the idea that certain portions of the

population are underrepresented, right?

And this is a mark of a forward-moving society.

This is like the liberal, the scheme of things,

or in the liberal mind or the liberal sort of imagination.

This is how things goes, that society over time

gets better by acknowledging things and talking about things and

opening spaces that give people who have otherwise not had space or have been, you know, say, murdered over generations

and, you know, subjects, objects of ethnocide and genocide, as indigenous people of Canada have, then this space then ends up becoming, I think in some ways like, you know, I guess what I'm trying to say is that like, it's interesting, being doing representation is is kind of tricky because on the one hand you know it's easy in some ways because you know like you know the story of white supremacy like you know how it excludes people.

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