Lori Idlout at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

[Member spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:]

Thank you.

First, I would like to thank you all for coming here to do your presentations. Your responses are very helpful.

I would like to start out by explaining with a preamble that the federal government wants to proceed ahead with any decisions or activities. It makes decisions about taxes and monies, and these are reliant on laws, which is why I will be asking questions of the presenters here.

I will ask you my question: As department heads, where do you draw your authority from when it comes to acting on reconciliation?

If you could respond to it individually.... Thank you.