Environment committee  I met with the previous department of fisheries minister, Gail Shea, and with the NTI. We hired our own legal drafters on how we would see Nunavut fisheries regulations that would ensure lakes... Like Duane said, we're getting salmon in Arctic Bay, which is high High Arctic, and

Environment committee  The people I represent are hunters and trappers. On Baffin Island we put a moratorium on caribou, because we saw the herds declining. We rely heavily on the animal population, not only for our food but for our clothing. Therefore, when Canada wants to put out exploration permits,

Environment committee  Duane, I'll let you answer first and I'll answer later.

Environment committee  Thank you for that question, Wayne. As president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc....Inuit, we are the largest private landholders in the world for Nunavut, and we are quite capable of setting aside protected areas and determining which ones we want protected. Right now we hold, I believ

Environment committee  Madam Chair, I forgot one comment.

Environment committee  I was at the Paris agreement with Canada, and in Nunavut we are actually getting pelicans from the Amazon. The Antarctica vortex is holding, but in our part of the world, 30% of our sea ice has receded. Plus, when we refer to elders, we refer to them as traditional knowledge hol

Environment committee  I believe it's new knowledge, not just past knowledge. For Inuit, when we speak of the snow and ice and the reading of it, we have lost some lives because of the misreading, but more importantly, because of forest fires, we're getting grizzlies, we're getting insects, we're getti

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  It's okay, it's quite understandable. I'll just go straight to the recommendations. Before we start, historically, Inuit have different names for snow. Pukajaaq snow can give you certain hours of living, it's more condense. Minguliq snow is the type that Mount Everest climbers

Environment committee  Yes. [Witness speaks in Inuktitut] First of all, thank you so much for inviting us. My counterparts Bruce Uviluq and Qilak Kusugak are experts: one is a lawyer to be, and the other one has been involved with IIBAs right across Nunavut. We are prepared to answer any technical

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would like to thank you and the committee. I travelled for three days and spent $6,000 and I appreciate your time. Thank you.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Excuse me, Mr. Chairman. David—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The benefits for Nunavut are in our land deal. We knew there was something there, so when they found Sir John Franklin, after 200 years, we own half of that. We get exciting vehicles. Last year a vehicle came over the North Pole from Russia, and a sailing ship came from Romania t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Michael, for those questions. A lot of us signed these agreements to get out of the Indian Act, but our experience has been that Indian Act-based funding premises are the key for the administration of government. Not to talk about the failed policies of the past, but

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, before we stop, I have just one final example so you'll get a crystal-clear picture. In December 2010, one staff member from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans banned 17 communities in Nunavut from hunting narwhals. Our land claims coalition agreements are constit