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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to be presenting here today to the committee, and it's good to see so many familiar faces. As I've been introduced, I am Natan Obed, the president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami. I'm here to talk about the status of COVID-19 across Inuit Nun
May 8th, 2020Committee meeting
Natan Obed
Health committee I'm sorry, but because of my trouble getting on I don't have access to translation like the rest of you, and I don't speak French. I apologize greatly for that.
April 21st, 2020Committee meeting
Natan Obed
Health committee I'm on a PC.
April 21st, 2020Committee meeting
Natan Obed
Health committee I had tech staff help me to get on, but it wasn't in the formal way so I don't have access to that particular icon. I greatly apologize.
April 21st, 2020Committee meeting
Natan Obed
Health committee Absolutely, and there have been announcements of a top-up to Nutrition North's expansion of specific items, but there's a larger issue of food insecurity and poverty that has to be addressed in the long term. Also, on a day-to-day basis, we don't know where the COVID-19 respons
April 21st, 2020Committee meeting
Natan Obed
Health committee Nakurmiik. Thank you, Niki. I think, just from a structural standpoint, an Inuit Nunangat policy approach should be employed any time the federal government is considering specific interventions for our communities. That means not leaving behind Nunatsiavut and Nunavik in a nort
April 21st, 2020Committee meeting
Natan Obed
Health committee Perhaps I'll start. We've found that there's been a lot of communication, but also at the same time a lot of confusion. The way the Government of Canada has worked with Inuit in allocating $45 million of the $305 million for the indigenous community support fund was in line wit
April 21st, 2020Committee meeting
Natan Obed
Health committee Nakurmiik. Thank you. I'm glad that I was able to get on the call. Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami is the national organization representing 65,000 Inuit in Canada, the majority of whom live in Inuit Nunangat, our homeland, and that encompasses 51 communities over possibly a third of C
April 21st, 2020Committee meeting
Natan Obed
Finance committee Nakurmiik. We've had a housing crisis in Inuit Nunangat for decades, and it is only getting worse. Currently, Inuit experience a 54% overcrowding rate in Inuit Nunangat, our homeland. There have been specific federal investments in Inuit housing in the last four budgets, with ap
February 6th, 2020Committee meeting
Natan Obed
Finance committee Nakurmiik. Good morning, ulaakut, everyone. Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami is the national organization representing approximately 65,000 Inuit in Canada, the majority of whom live in Inuit Nunangat. Inuit Nunangat is our homeland and the term we use to describe the roughly 35% of th
February 6th, 2020Committee meeting
Natan Obed
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Currently there is customary adoption within legislation in the Northwest Territories and in Nunavut. It is still a widely practised custom of adoption and it is very different from the adoption that most southern Canadians would know. I think it plays a very significant role wi
May 7th, 2019Committee meeting
Natan Obed
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee ITK is in agreement that clarification around funding would be effective and a positive change in this piece of legislation. In the legislation, “substantive equality” is mentioned. The caring society's case in the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal rulings and the effect that has
May 7th, 2019Committee meeting
Natan Obed
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee The first and foremost challenge is infrastructure and service delivery. If there isn't the essential infrastructure in a community, such as was already mentioned—foster homes or the ability for there to be housing for families—then it puts people in really difficult situations t
May 7th, 2019Committee meeting
Natan Obed
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee As it currently stands, we have incomplete data about how many Inuit are in care. That extends within jurisdictions within the Inuit homeland and also across southern Canada. Having a federal statute that demands that there be a distinctions-based way of identifying children in
May 7th, 2019Committee meeting
Natan Obed
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I think that very generally it is focused on outcomes. I think it imagines the agreements that can be made between indigenous governments and the Crown as being key facilitators to those outcomes. The challenge of funding is one that we've talked through all the way. In differen
May 7th, 2019Committee meeting
Natan Obed