But also for the Green Party, we've been, for a very long time, an advocate for Te Reo being taught compulsorily through our schools. Because when we talk about language opening up worlds to me there's nothing sadder than the fact that the worlds that exist within the country that I find myself born into are not open to me because I do not have the reo to be able to access them. And that makes me a poorer partner in this country because of that. I am of the generation of activists who didn't learn the reo because we thought we were taking resources away from Māori and their attempts to learn the language. That tension that I experienced in consideration of learning, or not, the language is part of what we hope to address by making it compulsory in our schools—to ensure that that teaching resource is available for everyone, that Māori don't have to fight for that scarce resource, and that as Pākehā we're not taking it up and taking it away from Māori, as it is their birthright to have that language.