[Member spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:]
Thank you, Mr. Chairperson.
Firstly, welcome to this meeting and for your presentation.
I'd like to thank you, Ms. Gill. You talked about housing, which is very important, and you raised some of the questions I had. When it comes to housing with aboriginal people, it is one of the crises that we have at the moment. I will not raise any questions, as they have been covered by colleagues before me.
I will ask this question, though.
Ever since I joined Parliament here, I have raised questions about elders and elder care. We value our elders very much, and it hurts us to see Nunavummiut elders go through such hardship in their lifetimes: going through residential school, giving up their children to residential schools and being forced into settlement communities where their dogs were destroyed.
Many people in the communities tell me that the elders do not want to leave their homeland to get care. Will you work with the Nunavut government on elder care and keep the elders in their own homeland when it comes to personal and permanent care?