Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Having something on paper versus believing it: I think that is the main consideration on this point.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In very, very general terms, the challenge is that when provisions in the land claim agreement are put to a test and they perhaps are put into action, it seems as though there are more restrictive interpretations on the federal government side and more expansive interpretations o

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Qujannamiik. Thank you so much, members of the committee and my colleagues from the Government of Nunavut. We welcome the opportunity to make remarks here today. I want to start by saying that land claims affect each and every Inuit across Inuit Nunangat, across our country. W

Agriculture committee  Shipping is something that anyone who lives in Inuit Nunangat knows the ins and outs of: how to shop online, what not to ship, and what to ship. Amazon Prime and others before it have offered free shipping in certain circumstances in certain locations, but it's a challenge for su

Agriculture committee  I think it starts with the renewed relationship and the Inuit-crown partnership that the Prime Minister and the Inuit signed in February. The work that flows through that with the Inuit-crown partnership committee is a place where we create a shared work plan. In areas that are o

Agriculture committee  Nakurmiik. It's an honour to address you here as a national Inuit leader on this very important topic of food policy for Canada. As Inuit, we often are seen as very exotic, whether it's where we live in Inuit Nunangat, the Canadian Arctic, or the foods that we eat: beluga, narwh

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  First and foremost, I would like a change in the way government respects Inuit in how it articulates this issue. There are questions every day in the media and there are statements made on a very regular basis about suicide prevention and how it will happen for indigenous Canad

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The renewed Inuit-to-crown partnership—that's the term we as Inuit have used—starts with a respect for Inuit land claim agreements and the Inuit governance structures that have been created under land claim agreements. In our four regions, we have different governance models, b

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In many ways the communication with all Inuit and with all Canadians about why suicide presents itself the way it does and what we all need to do to prevent suicide is one of the key parts of this initiative. As I said earlier, we don't have that unification yet. I believe that w

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thanks. We say that suicide is “normalized” in our communities. We say it that way because, as I said in my opening statement, everyone is affected. Everyone, from a very young age, understands very graphic details about it, how it happens and how a person is affected. The life

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There's a wide variety of ways in which health care funding and mental health funding flow to Inuit communities. The first nations and Inuit health branch has contribution agreements, sometimes with Inuit-specific providers and sometimes with governments. There is the overarching

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. In many of the Public Health Agency and Health Canada first nations and Inuit health branch programs, there are very specific terms and conditions around the types of services that can be provided and who provides those services.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll speak specifically for Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami. We have been engaged in those discussions with the Public Health Agency—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  —but all the way through those discussions, we have advocated for an Inuit-specific approach that the Public Health Agency and Health Canada can also adopt, in partnership with us, to work on suicide prevention. The ways in which risk is distributed in our communities are so diff