Thank you for that question.
Sovereignty has impacted our people for many years. I don't know if you know this, but in the early 1950s our people from Nunavik, from northern Quebec, which is where I come from, were relocated into the High Arctic. The government, maybe not this present government, but the federal government has acknowledged that yes, Inuit played an integral role in the assertion of sovereignty. So we have been impacted by the sovereignty issue for many years.
What we're trying to do now is have more control over how that plays out in terms of our own lives, because people were moved without consenting to be moved. I think that in 2009 we're at the stage where we do have these land claims agreements, we do have different authorities that represent Inuit, like ITK. We have the Makivik Corporation, we have the Nunavut Tunngavik, we have the Inuvialuit region, and now we have the Nunatsiavut government. They all have authority over their territories. I think it's really incumbent upon all of us to make sure that these processes work so the lives of our people at the community level are not being adversely affected the way they were years ago. Very big traumas were experienced in those days, and we don't want to see that happen again. The only way we can have some assurances is to work together on these issues.