Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, sir.
Just so that people around the table understand, the understanding must be that some of the implementation did happen within the 15, 16, 17 years now, since 1993. There was some work done. It's not as if there was never any work done, but there was a process made and progress made, and today the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement remains about 50% unimplemented, about half way. It's long overdue.
It seems as if it slowed down about eight years ago. That's when we started to sound the alarm that nothing was being done on the federal side to implement the claim respectably. There were many articles outstanding. As a result, we commissioned Price Waterhouse to do a report for us to justify the cost of the loss we are getting because of lack of implementation. At that time when we did the commission on the report in 2003, the loss we got every year—this is annual—was $137 million that we were losing because of the land claim not being implemented. This is how much Inuit were losing per year, for example.
We've lost a lot. That's why we're challenging the federal government today, because of that loss. We didn't like it, but that was the necessary step we had to take, drastically. It was not the best thing, but we had to get serious and we wanted action, and that was the only ultimate option left for us to do. We submitted a claim against the federal government in 2006.
Thank you, sir.