Yes, thank you.
The commission is critically underfunded, and this is something that should be known by this committee.
To give you a bit of the background, in the absence of our implementation contract, we're coming into our next 10 years. This has been a 10-year period without a contract. Since 1993, the commission has had a FDDIPI increase. We struggle currently with our level of funding to implement our obligations under the land claims agreement with the mandate of article 11.
This legislation brings new obligations that are outside of the NLCA, the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. First and foremost is the public registry; the commission will be obligated to do that. We proposed to government back in 2010, and all our partners, a proposal for an online public registry—not a Cadillac model, but something that would work and provide the commission with adequate systems to be able to respond to the additional applications that will be coming to us. We will require language obligations with that registry, and with this bill, that will be significant. For us to provide one word in English, it's a $2 cost to the commission as the cost of translation.
In our organizational capacity, currently we have left positions vacant simply to meet our current needs. We will not be able to enact this legislation without additional funding. There's just no question about it.