Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, maybe I could just quickly add that in the Senate, in the aboriginal peoples committee, we have offered translation for Cree and North Slavey speakers.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. In the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, there is no notice provision required because with unilingual members, there is full simultaneous interpretation available in all official languages of the territories, which include the aboriginal languages. As I m

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'm very pleased and honoured to appear today to discuss the issue of rights and rules respecting indigenous languages in the House of Commons. Just as a bit of background, I am a former MLA, a cabinet minister, and I was a premier in the governme

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are eight, plus French and English.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Tell me how much time. I'm open. I was told roughly 10 minutes. I can probably make it shorter than that.

Electoral Reform committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and for that question. I think you understand perfectly the perspective we have in Nunavut. We're by far the largest jurisdiction in the country—bigger than Ontario, bigger than Quebec—with the smallest population. The Inuit, in turn, are a small minority w

Electoral Reform committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for the question. With all respect to Mr. Chambers, I think what he proposes is too complex. I gave some examples of the very crystal clear question that we created in reference to the very important subject of choosing a capital and dividing the Northwest T

Electoral Reform committee  Qujannamiik. Thank you, Mr. Chair, for inviting me to appear before you today. I would like to welcome all honourable members of Parliament here and thank you very much for this opportunity to discuss my thoughts on electoral reform as they relate to my home jurisdiction of Nuna

Fisheries committee  The coast guard is a valued service in the Arctic. We are pleased that the government has finally announced spending programs to replace aging coast guard icebreakers and increase vessel coverage in the north through the patrol ships. What we're most concerned about as Nunavut

Fisheries committee  I have a franchise—just kidding.

Fisheries committee  If I may, I'm speaking from the Nunavut perspective, Mr. Chair. Again, just like I was talking about the partnership in managing the fishery with Inuit participation, Inuit are also at the table with our environmental review process. There is a co-management approach to environme

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, I'd like to thank the member for that question. We all know the aboriginal fishery can be a source of tension in parts of the country. I don't want to comment on that. What we have in Nunavut, as I said in my presentation, is we have the Inuit involved in managing th

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, I very much appreciate the question. It is very expensive to deliver anything to the Arctic, whether by ship or by air, although by ship is to be preferred, and I believe our government should provide incentives for people to use lower cost shipping instead of higher

Fisheries committee  It's going to be open this summer.

Fisheries committee  I could add, Mr. Chair, that I checked on this anticipating a question. I am informed that the Government of the Northwest Territories—and the NWT is the main customer of the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation from Great Slave Lake—after the December 9, 2010 vote of the fisher