Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, I believe so. Sharon, do you want to add a bit?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I believe it is important because, again, the signatories of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement are both governments and the Inuit of Nunavut, represented by NTI. We fully support that there is a need for the Inuit role in being signatory to this.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As we said earlier, I think we've spent about 90 days now touring some Nunavut communities. We're planning to go to each and every Nunavut community. We have heard how important land use planning is within the Nunavut settlement area. The communities do want to ensure that the areas they want protected are protected, or that the areas they wanted developed are developed.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, generally speaking we support what NTI is proposing, but we have different perspectives from what is in NIRB's proposed amendment. I'll ask Sharon to provide a bit more detail.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  —to ensure that we follow translations: French, Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun, English. That will have a higher cost in our operations. Certainly we do need more resources in terms of human resources. The other one, of course, is the public registry. Again, that calls for all languages to be used for our public registry.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, it would be online, etc. Certainly I think Sharon, our executive director, can give you a little bit more detail as to what cost implications that will have.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Certainly under the new legislation there's a requirement to use different languages—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Qujannamiik. Uvunga Paul Quassa. [Speaker speaks in Inuktitut] I'm Paul Quassa, chairman of the Nunavut Planning Commission, and I'm here today with Sharon Ehaloak, our executive director, and Adrian Boyd, the director of policy. On behalf of the Nunavut Planning Commission, I'd like to thank the committee for the privilege of speaking directly with you today.