Mr. Chairman, I'd like to add to what John Amagoalik said.
We have two next-door neighbours who are looked after by the federal government. That's Alert and Eureka. Their treatment is really good because their employer is the federal government. Anything they run out of--food or whatever they need--they get transported up there to help them out. The treatment is different. When we talk about Resolute people, Inuit people, the treatment is different. That's why we've been asking the federal government to recognize the Inuit people. For our two next-door neighbours, Eureka and Alert, the treatment is really good. They have employment and they make good money. All the food and expenses are paid, the transportation is paid, and if they have a family down south they get paid.
So the treatment is different. Depending on where the federal government has located the Inuit people, the treatment is different. That's what we are complaining about.
Our people, our parents, the ones I mentioned earlier, are buried and frozen in the ground. We're not going to leave them alone. We're going to live up there. Right now our families live up there. There are more people who were born up there. It's their hometown now. We've been asking the federal government to recognize the people up there.
They talk about Lancaster Sound and the Northwest Passage. They talk about animals. They want to protect them really good, just like a soft pillow. But they never mention anything about us, the Inuit people. They relocate us.
Like I said earlier, we don't even know what we're doing up there, what we're protecting up there. It's a big island, half of Nunavut, when you look at the map. It's really important to us, to our people, that Inuit people live there.
Let's negotiate something better. That's what we're asking for.