Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. For the municipality, I would have to say that our water infrastructure is a priority, as well as ensuring that we address climate change issues with respect to permafrost and the breaking of pipes. For our capital city—which we happen to be—I would prioritize teleco

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. As I indicated earlier, the first issue is that it's not a year-round port. Second is the issue of the road to and from. Three is how much local employment it's going to provide, or is not providing. Four is that....

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I was just trying to be diplomatic.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's the fact that the governments looked at the current users. The port, at its size, is not addressing all the future opportunities, which it could have and should have, so everything, from being able to offload fish, which currently is being done in Greenland—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  —or down in the Canadian Maritimes. Woodward is a company in Labrador that is super keen on potentially providing additional shipping services because they can do it cheaper. It could have been done better. Again, I think we need to move away from doing things poorly, with poor

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's the goal. The contractor is doing significant daily blastings, working almost 24 hours at this point before the weather hits. I can't predict the future, unfortunately.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you to the member for the question. The deep-sea port in Iqaluit will effectively help reduce the number of days to unload the cargo from the number of ships that we get from early July to approximately the middle or the end of October. It's not a year-round deep-sea port.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. It's really important that we get all the right people into the same room and talk about the short-term, the medium-term and the long-term investment that's required in our infrastructure. The problem I've seen, including the work I did with the Qikiqtani Truth Commi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you so much to the standing committee for the invitation to come before you. I just want to say, for the record, that I'm also the president of the Nunavut Association of Municipalities and the vice-chair of the northern forum for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Status of Women committee  I think the fact is that in schools we need to start having the topic of women in politics as part of civic courses. I can't believe how many young men don't even know what sexual harassment or sexual assault is. They literally just think it's rape. They don't think having sex wi

Status of Women committee  I would recommend, under workers' compensation safety board.... I can tell you that harassment, bullying and sexual harassment are not adequately dealt with in that federal piece of legislation. In Nunavut, interestingly enough, we passed occupational health and safety legislat

Status of Women committee  The biggest issue I have regarding travel is that when our Inuit male leaders travel with their female staff, they think it's a benefit and a perk that they can sexually harass, sexually assault or have relationships with women on the road. I know that's not answering your questi

Status of Women committee  I would just share that in the political landscape with indigenous people, we recognize that we need to do reconciliation. The reality is that we have to do something on women's participation in politics. The media has a huge role to play. Social media has a huge role to play.

Status of Women committee  There is an interesting intersection between racism and sexism when you are a woman from a minority background. I would have to say that my confidence probably came from the fact that I went to 11 schools in 13 years. That was pretty tough, being a minority growing up in Yellowkn

Status of Women committee  Okay. Then later, we can talk a little more.