Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That is a good question. A quick answer is that we are a school board that has a dual mandate, which is to provide education to anyone living in Nunavik and to protect our culture and language. Any child, any student, any youth who is within our school board has every right to

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, students have. We have an average of 60 to 80 non-Inuit in our communities. I'm just talking about Kuujjuaq here. There are 14 communities altogether. We are very open. We have an open-hand policy where we engage and ensure that our students are participating, whether they

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Once you're out on the land you quickly forget about racism. You are so immersed in being on the land that you forget about that, so the best medicine is being on the land.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You would have to go to our health centre here. They're not made available. I know that in our stores they do have hand sanitizers, but as for gloves and masks right now.... Considering that we did have 16 active cases for a while but they've all recovered, right now we're kind o

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Last week, we had an online graduation for our Nunavik Sivunitsavut program, which is kind of similar.... It is exactly like Nunavut Sivunitsavut. Our students, when they take on that program, get to know their identity. They get to know where they come from. They get to know t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Just recently a group of students went out on the land, where they got a chance to tap into their Inuit rites of passage. I find way too often we separate our Inuit rites of passage from western education. Inuit rites of passage are very similar to a form of learning and I belie

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Inuktitut and provided the following text:] Nakurmiik, apirsutitsiaratarmi apirsukavinnga. [English] We have not resolved anything when it comes to broadband Internet. High-speed is very slow. We definitely need support. We need to have the federal governme

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Recently we had our council of commissioners meeting, and we were advised that we are trying to reopen our schools. There are all different sizes of schools. Some are very small and some are much larger. We've been advised that it's going to take our bringing in transient employe

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  PPE meaning—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. I do know that within Nunavik here now we have airlines flying between communities, so they are providing masks. As for our schools, this is something that's going to be under discussion. I know that we have approximately 370 adults who are attending our vocational traini

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Right now all vocational training courses have been put on hold, but we are providing access for them to be able to finish some of their courses online and even take an examination.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Inuktitut] [English] My name is Robert Watt. I am the president of Kativik Ilisarniliriniq, the school board of Nunavik. First, I would like to thank you for inviting me. I'm glad to have the opportunity to inform you about how the Nunavik education sector