[Member spoke in Inuktitut as follows:]
ᖁᔭᓐᓇᒦᒃ ᐃᒃᓯᕙᐅᑖᖅ. ᓯᕗᓪᓕᕐᒥᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑑᕐᓗᖓ ᑐᙵᓱᒃᑎᑦᑐᒪᓪᓗᒋᓪᓗ ᖁᔭᓕᔪᒪᓪᓗᒋᓪᓗ. ᑕᒪᓐᓇ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐊᓘᖕᒪᑦ, ᑐᑭᓯᐅᒪᑎᑦᑎᓂᖅ ᑭᓇᒃᑰᖕᒪᖓᑕ ᑖᒃᑯᐊ ᓯᕗᓕᖅᑏᑦ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐅᖕᒪᑦ. ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔪᖓ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑑᖅᑐᖓ.
[Inuktitut text translated as follows:]
Thank you, Chairperson. First, I will speak in Inuktitut to welcome you. I am grateful to you all. It is very important we introduce ourselves. I am glad to speak in Inuktitut.
[English]
I will switch to English. I wanted to share in my language a thank you and a welcome to you on this important meeting.
I think ensuring that Canadians appreciate the position of the leaders is very important. The rest of the MPs who end up being elected follow the leadership very closely, and we want to work well with our leaders. I think these leadership debates are quite important, and I share my colleague's concerns about the last debate.
Before I get to specific questions, I also want to take the opportunity to thank you as the minister for infrastructure, because one of the decisions you made, which I think I had an influence on, was to fund the water crisis in Iqaluit. I'm very thankful for that.
I also want to quickly ask if you agree with recommendation number 7 from the commission. It states that the commission should ensure the debates are available in languages other than French and English, “paying special attention to Canada's Indigenous languages”.