The singer and educator says it is the job of Indigenous people "to teach, not to scold" others about Canada's painful history of Aboriginal relations.

Clinton was in Toronto on Tuesday night where he accepted an honorary doctorate from Nova Scotia's St. Francis Xavier University.

Schnell's legacy started on ice, working his way through various academic institutions in North America. Now, the Deputy Director of the Global Monitoring Division for the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, his life's work, is ironically finishing with a focus on global warming.