Okay, thank you, sirs, for that comment and also for the question.
Mr. Chairman, let me first say this in my own language. [Witness speaks in Inuktitut]
Firstly, thank you. The gentleman before you visited our office back in 1999, or thereabouts.
Yes, Inuit are different in that way: we try to accommodate visitors as much as possible, and we will welcome everybody. On many occasions we take the back benches and try to accommodate our visitors as much as possible to make them understand our culture and to welcome them the best way we can. We continue to do that today, and even allow ourselves to be inconvenienced because of it. That's just the culture we have of welcoming visitors to our territory.
You mentioned it was minus 20 degrees, and I was thinking, that's only minus 20; we usually get minus 40 to minus 50, or in that range, in the winter. Again, thank you for visiting Nunavut.
Just to let you know, we have recently moved to start protecting our language through legislation through our Nunavut government, which we were really happy to be part of.
In terms of your question on the development of change, we are already there. We have already adjusted, I suppose, to the change that is before us in Nunavut. We have maintained that we will be receptive to new changes coming forward and to do the best we can to accommodate those changes. The changes are there already; they've happened already, and we're dealing with them as best we can.
I know we are encountering challenges before us. There's a social challenge before us. Those challenges are before us, and we try to be as patient as possible so we can resolve those issues one by one. They cannot be resolved overnight; it takes time to resolve the issues we're dealing with in the modern day. We will continue to work to do the best we can to accommodate change as it comes.