Finance committee  Ullakut. Good morning. I bring greetings from our president, Martha Greig, and our board of directors, Inuit women from across Canada's high north, as well as youth and urban Inuit women who could not be here on such short notice—we were called last night at six o'clock—and who h

Finance committee  Thank you, and through you, Mr. Chairman, what we're finding--and this isn't about Pauktuutit but is about many NGOs--there are pockets of activities and policy development in many departments that would function much better if they worked together. I can give you one example in

Status of Women committee  No, I'll give it.

Status of Women committee  I have printed some copies of this with some nice pictures on it, if people want it. Unfortunately, it's English and Inuktitut, not English and French, and I don't know what the process is, but would you like to have it?

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Committee Chair Yasmin Ratansi, for including the voice of Canada's Inuit women in the Standing Committee on Status of Women deliberations today. We're pleased to be with you. Your agenda discussing the economic security of Canada's women is dear to the hearts of Inui

Status of Women committee  Who?

Status of Women committee  It's a very valid observation. Yes, elders, Inuit women, are highly respected by their families and their communities, and yes, I think we'd all agree that there is a certain amount of taking advantage happening there. However, they also carry a lot of the ancient traditional wi

Status of Women committee  That's a huge question. I don't have any personal experience of their weighing in on it at all, on a direct level, but there are some private sector enterprises that do care about the community in which they are working and that do want stability in the communities. One of the p

Status of Women committee  It is a real issue. It's an issue in downtown Toronto too.

Status of Women committee  It's an issue, and we all have to be aware of it and watch it and make sure that we protect people whose lives we are changing.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. We have a very small program, Journey to Success, which we help. It's a three-day program. We've developed all the materials, and it's all in Inuktitut. We do it in whatever communities we can afford to do it in. We help women become entrepreneurs. It's working, and i

Status of Women committee  I love that question. An initial amount that we would need? I don't know, but $10 million would be just fine. The situation in Canada's high north is at crisis level. I'm not surprised at all that your colleague raised the Sudan. Anybody who studies Canadian demographics knows

Status of Women committee  I just wanted to say concerning the FASD question that we're very involved in it. It's one of our key files.

Status of Women committee  We're in very close conversation with our colleagues at the Status of Women, and we do discuss potentials and they do tell us. I don't know if this committee knows this, but I mentioned earlier that we get our core funding from Heritage Canada, which is the other part, but that's

Status of Women committee  The Status of Women people.