Lori Idlout at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

[ Member spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:]

Thank you, Mr. Chairperson.

Before you ask any questions, I need to clarify that Inuit women do not use ribbon skirts as a tradition or culturally. Inuit use amautiit and kamiik. We use those as regalia. They're all handmade. I think that's understood. Inuit women do not use ribbon skirts.

I ask you now, George and Christopher, don't you think that you are using an assimilationist policy that governments have used over the years by lumping us all in one?