Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The way that our land claims agreements are structured is that we have a very clear path towards the very beginning of the discussion about whether or not Inuit would like to see development on our lands, the environmental assessment process, the development of impact and benefit

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much for that question. I won't go list by list, but I think there are a number of key departments that can play meaningful and substantive roles in helping us achieve success in our strategic plan, and I think that we're very practical and focused in the way that

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you again for the question. It's a lifelong-learning holistic approach to increase the educational attainment for Inuit. In the early years, we focused on bridging the gap between parents and students, and the education system. With the legacy of residential schools and th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I will now speak very quickly about the strategic objectives that we are laying out as we move forward for the next three years. Suicide prevention is our first objective. To take action on suicide prevention, we will be releasing a national Inuit suicide prevention strategy thi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for having the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami here this afternoon. I look forward to the discussion later. I want to thank you for the invitation. ITK is the national representational organization for Canada's 60,000 Inuit. We are spread across Canada's

Finance committee  Yes. In our organization, we have four land claim regions that have their own processes. At the national level, we've created a system in which, on technical issues, we bring representatives from each of those four regions into the same room to then inform the way in which our po

Finance committee  Yes, we receive some core funding from Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada.

Finance committee  Yes, since 2011, 50% of our federal funds have been cut from the organization.

Finance committee  The core funding from the aboriginal representative organizations fund was a much smaller cut than the Health Canada and other project funding that allowed for Inuit to participate in various projects or work on various issues. I believe we're looking in the neighbourhood of $2 m

Finance committee  Yes, absolutely. We are the democratically elected representational organization for Canadian Inuit. It fulfills constitutional requirements, the overarching duty to consult. It is the way in which Inuit have chosen to mobilize and to interact at the national level with the feder

Finance committee  Sure. We also have a number of different mental health and health-related initiatives that we hope to see funding for, especially in relation to suicide and suicide prevention. The last thing I would like to add is that Inuit organizations have taken huge hits over the last dec

Finance committee  Thank you, honourable chair and committee members, for the opportunity to speak to you today. My name is Natan Obed. I'm the president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the representational voice of Canada's 60,000 Inuit from Nunatsiavut in the east to the Inuvialuit region in the we