Procedure and House Affairs committee  We don't have a survey question that asks if there was simultaneous translation, so I can't say directly. We do measure exposure to indigenous languages on the Aboriginal Peoples Survey, which reaches off-reserve first nations people, Métis, and Inuit. It asks: How often are yo

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I want to add as well that there is a Cree NOS there. That means Cree “not otherwise specified”. That's someone writing just Cree on the questionnaire. As we had mentioned, on the electronic questionnaire they would have been prompted to be more specific, and that's why we get b

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We need to understand that growth within the context of the population growth as a whole. The Inuit population is growing quickly. A lot of that growth is because they have high fertility rates. We see the aboriginal population, as a whole, growing substantially over time. Howeve