Ms. Gerri Sharpe at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

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Thank you for the invitation to appear before your committee on this legislation. With me today is Beth Symes, Pauktuutit's legal counsel.

I was born in Yellowknife to David Sharpe and Maudie Qitsualik. My mother is the oldest of 17 children born to Gideon Qitsualik. My grandfather Qitsualik helped shape Nunavut's land claims agreement, in which education and self-determination were key. He is also one of the seal hunters on the back of the 1972 two-dollar bill.

My childhood was spent in Nova Scotia and Gjoa Haven, an Inuit hamlet in Nunavut—