Procedure and House Affairs committee  Qujannamiik, iksivautaq. I appreciated all the passion about the challenges. I want to ask what I think is a forward-thinking question. As an Inuk myself, and as an indigenous critic within the NDP, I always feel like it's incumbent upon me to ask about the importance of reconc

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Qujannamiik. I also want to ask about the funds, and specifically the area called “Contract for incremental costs for debate production”. I do see that there had been an RFP for a debate production and that reimbursements needed to be made. I wondered how that contracting proce

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The feedback, for example, is that there were huge issues with the format and with the moderator, in that it seemed that the journalists were raising their own platforms as opposed to ensuring that it was the leaders' platforms that came forward. Those seem to go against what wou

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Qujannamiik, iksivautaq. Thank you so much to the witnesses and to the Right Honourable David Johnston. I want to thank you particularly for your time as Governor General. I really enjoyed your service and how you highlighted hockey. As a hockey player myself, you really inspir

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Qujannamiik, iksivautaq. From my understanding, there were a lot of huge issues with the format and with the moderator in that it seemed to have become a platform for journalists. It seemed that in fact Canadians did not get a good sense of what the leaders' platforms were. If

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Qujannamiik, iksivautaq. I have just one very quick question. What is the appetite to ensure that moderators of debates are indigenous?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  [Member spoke in Inuktitut] [English] There were two statements you made that drew my attention. You mentioned the importance of the societal values and you also also talked about the highest degree of accessibility. Those two seem to be quite important, which we need to make

Procedure and House Affairs committee  [Member spoke in Inuktitut ] [English] I will switch to English. I wanted to share in my language a thank you and a welcome to you on this important meeting. I think ensuring that Canadians appreciate the position of the leaders is very important. The rest of the MPs who end

Procedure and House Affairs committee  [Member speaks in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:] On the importance of reconciliation, is it not time to turn empathy into action?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  [Member spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:] Thank you, Madam Chair. First of all, I want to thank the witnesses for appearing, and I ask them, through the chair, to respond. The first question I have is this. Have the depths of the impacts of colonialism affected vote

Procedure and House Affairs committee  [Member speaks in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:] Thank you for your response. I would like to hear a response from both of you to my next question and the importance of—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you so much. Do you feel that your language rights are adequately protected?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Do you think that indigenous people deserve the same language rights protections that English- and French-speaking Canadians receive?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. What obligations does the Indigenous Languages Act give to the Government of Canada?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  My last question is this: As a form of reconciliation, is it not time that we turn empathy into action?