Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to our presenters. Good afternoon to my colleagues. This, in my opinion, is landmark legislation. I'm a business guy. My background is business, and I'm always more about execution and implementation. My concern is this, and I'm looking for

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I move that the debate be now adjourned.

Canadian Heritage committee  Good afternoon, Madam Chair. I'd like to move that this committee commence clause-by-clause consideration of Bill C-91 on Monday, March 18.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll read it again. Madam Chair, I would like to move that this committee commence clause-by-clause consideration of Bill C-91 on Monday, March 18 at 3:30 p.m. (Motion agreed to)

Canadian Heritage committee  Would you care to comment, Mr. Obed, on statements from other indigenous leaders such as Perry Bellegarde, who said it was “landmark legislation”? We had him in last week. He said that no legislation is perfect, but it's a great start, and now we need to work to make that better.

Canadian Heritage committee  Would you say that you are seeking official language status for Inuktut at the federal level?

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much, President.

Canadian Heritage committee  President Obed, thank you so much for coming in and giving us your presentation. I think we can all agree that the goal is to ensure that we address as many of your concerns as possible. I certainly respect the fact that you have some concerns and some differences. Obviously the

Canadian Heritage committee  I apologize. It just says your thoughts on other indigenous languages spoken in Inuit Nunangat. Is there only the one?

Canadian Heritage committee  Do you see Bill C-91, as it currently is, protecting minority languages? Because one of the concerns we've heard from other witnesses is just the fact that there are communities that have infrastructure—schools, systems, things in place—but other areas don't at all. Do you see

Canadian Heritage committee  How far is it?

Canadian Heritage committee  Do you think you could get to the extension part in 10 years?

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay, thank you.

Canadian Heritage committee  Good morning to my colleagues. Good morning to our witnesses, and thank you very much. Ms. Wickham, you mentioned, and it stuck with me because I've heard it in previous testimony, making sure that minority children are captured in this, or looked after. Obviously, some of the

Canadian Heritage committee  That's fine. You can answer in respect to that, or just generally.