Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. Very quickly, I want to answer some of the gentleman's question about the construction. Yes, there was an impact on the construction part in Nunavut, which to some degree slowed down overall. That affected the growth of the territory, I suppose, in the sense that fewer proj

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. In terms of the northern strategy and the stimulus package, there was a positive effect on the housing part, where there was $200 million given, and I believe there is an additional $100 million forthcoming. That really helped the territory in terms of progress. In terms o

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we have an interest in the cargo services in Nunavut. A lot of our ships come from Montreal, and a lot of cargo is moved from there to here, and throughout Nunavut now. It's through what we call NEAS, Nunavut Eastern Arctic Shipping Inc. Through that process, through our cor

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, sir, for the question. The Nunavut Trust is an organization created under the land claims agreement to look after the settlement money, which was a $1.14 billion settlement through the land claims agreement back in 1993. They take that money and invest it throughout a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, sir, for that question. Through the land claims process we have article 23, which covers participation in employment within government and in meeting training needs within Nunavut through our involvement with the governments. At the outset, when the Nunavut land claim

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Through the land claim agreement, we have what we call the Nunavut Planning Commission, which looks after the interests of our land and what goes on that land in the future. In terms of that, they have a mandate to redo their assessment of land, the purpose of Inuit-owned lands,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Russell, for that very good question. In terms of the fishing, you understand that we want to partner with the other regions, such as Makkovik and Nunatsiavut, with the fishing strategy that we have. We do now partner with them, but we want to expand that as well.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. Jeff can add to this as well. We've been lobbying to get to the 100% level, if we can; we were looking at 80% to 90%. Right now it is cut into different zones. We talked about the 0B zone, where it is 41%. That is almost halfway there. If the proper allocations can be given

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. There was some problem. It was cutting off and on. I'm going to do the best I can to answer to the comments I got, but there's something wrong with this gadget. In terms of Air Inuit, we are not the owners of First Air or Air Inuit. It's a separate company. We're a 5

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, madam, for that question. For many years we have been trying to make the Department of Fisheries and Oceans understand that we have a potential here for fishing allocations in Nunavut. They need to be adequate, because we have limited opportu

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness speaks in Inuktitut] No, it's not Air North. Canadian North and First Air are the two airlines. In fact, I'm going to Ottawa this afternoon to be part of that announcement tomorrow. It's about both give and take. Right now the implementation of our claim is very... I

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for that question. Yes. I think the announcement was that they would start in March or April, and we kind of red-flagged it because we already have pretty good competition with the existing airlines that we have in place in Nunavut and here in Iqaluit. We felt that for

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. Yes, very much. I'm so grateful that you were able to ask that question, because it's an unfair practice. I maintain that we do pretty good work in the Nunavut settlement area and with our Nunavut government. We're like a pretty good marriage, I suppose. When it com

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Brad Hickes is our business development person from our department, our business department. Glenn Cousins, my cousin here, he's from the Kakivak Association, and Jeffrey Maurice is our fish officer in our department at Nunavut Tunngavik.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Not to minimize the questions coming forward, but I have two more pages.