Inuktitut.
Evidence of meeting #23 for Official Languages in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was yukon.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #23 for Official Languages in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was yukon.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Conservative
Daniel Petit Conservative Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, QC
Yes. Does the Yukon territorial constitution recognize two or three languages? I'm talking about the territorial constitution, not the federal one.
Acting Director General, Association franco-yukonnaise
The Yukon Languages Act recognizes French, English and the aboriginal languages. Yukon has no Inuit population, but it does have an aboriginal population made up of a number of nations that speak various languages.
Conservative
Daniel Petit Conservative Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, QC
Do they all have the same status territorially?
Acting Director General, Association franco-yukonnaise
I don't want to speak for them. The act gives them all the same status.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
Thank you very much.
That brings our meeting to an end. On behalf of committee members, I would like to thank you for your refreshing candour, which is not unlike the weather. We found the pot of gold this morning: the smallest francophone community in Canada. You practically deserve our applause, but I will leave that up to the discretion of committee members.
Acting Director General, Association franco-yukonnaise
You are all welcome in our community any time. Don't be shy. It's not cold in the summer; it's actually very nice.