We will now begin the 146th meeting of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.
Today, we are continuing our study of Bill C-91, An Act respecting Indigenous languages.
We have with us as an individual, Mr. Roger Jones, Special Adviser to the National Chief, Languages Act, who was with us just recently.
From Amnesty International Canada, we have Mr. Craig Benjamin, Campaigner, Indigenous Rights.
From Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., we have Aluki Kotierk, President, and Kilikvak Kabloona, CEO.
I would like to begin with an apology to those from the NTI. We tried to have an Inuit interpreter accredited through translation services in time for this meeting. We were unable to find someone accredited. I know we've talked about it, but I did want to formally apologize.
Just so the committee knows, when NTI does their opening statement, it will be in Inuktitut. They will be reading the formal statement, and the translators will be reading it in English and in French. Questions and answers will be in English and in French.
On that note, we can begin with Roger Jones, please.