Public Safety committee  Thank you. In my personal work experience, when I was an employee of Nunavut Tunngavik, I was involved in the creation of the Nunavut suicide prevention strategy. At that time, the commander of the V Division, Steve McVarnock, sat in and participated and we had the RCMP as a par

Public Safety committee  I'm fine with going into the questions.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's great to see everyone. Ublaahatkut, good morning. I'll be sharing my time with President Kotierk. The Inuit Nunangat is the homeland for Inuit. It encompasses 51 communities spanning four regions: in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunavik and Nu

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think it would be to get as much money to the community-based health support programs as you possibly can. Institutions that keep our communities healthy and well often need a number of different federal programs and provincial and territorial programs just to keep their doors

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The indigenous community support fund monies that were received by Inuit are not only for Inuit Nunangat communities, but for wherever Inuit live. Each of our four land claim regions has devised implementation programs and supports for urban Inuit. There are other urban indigen

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The biggest point for members of Parliament is the continued lack of continuity between federal departments when it comes to implementing a distinctions-based Inuit Nunangat approach to any sort of indigenous-specific matter. There are announcements almost every day. There are so

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We still rely very heavily on community-based economic structures, especially for our artists who are selling their carvings or their fine arts locally, and often through cash. Sometimes it is to tourists, sometimes to government workers and sometimes to suppliers who then sell t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In our funds that were provided for Inuit-specific response, each of our four regions has specific considerations for elders within the use of those funds, whether that be vouchers for purchase of food at stores or the ability to access country food through community freezers. On

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, ITK has been pushing for the term “essential service” to be used in relation to our airlines, and it's because we don't have roadways to our communities. We don't have railways. We only have sealift resupply for a short window every single summer. Anything else that comes in

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I haven't had any direct conversations with Minister Miller about this particular subject, although ITK is working with Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada to meaningfully implement the national calls for justice from the national inquiry. We are coming up on the one-year anniversar

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, [Inaudible-Editor] sewer to air transportation. We have certain airports in Inuit Nunangat that don't even have lights on their runways, and no flights are able to fly in after dark. We have many communities where the water and sewer infrastructure is from the 1950s or 196

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I think we're in an unprecedented scenario, of course, but look at the scenario right now for one of our four regions, Nunavut. If individuals choose to fly to the south, when they come back, they have to pay for two weeks of isolation in a hotel bef

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  ITK at the national level is working very closely with the government. Our board of directors, our land claims rights-holding presidents, are working with their respective jurisdictions. Some have better relationships than others, but for the most part we feel in this time there

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Just about all of Inuit Nunangat is still dependent upon satellite technology for Internet access. We don't have the connectivity that southern Canada has. We are, and always have been, a generation or two behind southern Canada when it comes to connectivity, and that's had massi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.