Finance committee  Yes, we receive some core funding from Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada.

Finance committee  Yes, since 2011, 50% of our federal funds have been cut from the organization.

Finance committee  Yes, absolutely. We are the democratically elected representational organization for Canadian Inuit. It fulfills constitutional requirements, the overarching duty to consult. It is the way in which Inuit have chosen to mobilize and to interact at the national level with the federal government, yes.

Finance committee  Sure. We also have a number of different mental health and health-related initiatives that we hope to see funding for, especially in relation to suicide and suicide prevention. The last thing I would like to add is that Inuit organizations have taken huge hits over the last decade.

Finance committee  Thank you, honourable chair and committee members, for the opportunity to speak to you today. My name is Natan Obed. I'm the president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the representational voice of Canada's 60,000 Inuit from Nunatsiavut in the east to the Inuvialuit region in the western Arctic.