Foreign Affairs committee  It's as in, “You want to take it”. What we're saying is that the southern people, people from other parts of the world, want to extract the resources from under our feet. It cannot happen just like that. That's what we're trying to say. If there are transactions between the two,

Foreign Affairs committee  I wouldn't be bothering you.

Foreign Affairs committee  We know we own the land. We were there before anybody else. How does the ownership begin? Think about that.

Foreign Affairs committee  If the Arctic is being treated as a country that has symbolic state recognition, we would be operating very differently with the Canadian government and with the other countries, but the fact is that we're not recognized as a state. That's why we can't participate, even though th

Foreign Affairs committee  The fact that we have a very small population is one of the reasons we're counting on our Canadian government to make sure they stick with us and be partners. We're not looking at it any other way. If you kick us out of the country, then maybe we have to think of something else,

Foreign Affairs committee  We have lots more.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. In regard to your question, this mapping that I talked about had nothing to do with making a claim. All it does is show how the Inuit of the Arctic travel and interact, even though they're so far apart from each other, and so on. Examples are Greenland and Canada or Alaska

Foreign Affairs committee  Along the continental shelf—

Foreign Affairs committee  I speak the same language as the people in the Arctic, Inuktitut.

Foreign Affairs committee  Do you want me to be honest with you?

Foreign Affairs committee  Then I'll say it in one way: You want it again.

Foreign Affairs committee  Maybe I'll just get my lawyer to....

Foreign Affairs committee  I recognize you.

Foreign Affairs committee  Exactly.

Foreign Affairs committee  There are many needs. Let me try to describe them. What you are asking is twofold. One is down the road, and the other one is what we do now in coming up with a framework. Are you talking about a framework in the same fashion that the Government of Canada looks at a framework