Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:] When it comes to renovating, we have a full-time person who does renovations, maintenance and repairs. The FCNQ was contracted to build 20 houses. While they were working on the labour, they stayed here and we asked that the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:] For instance, plumbers, electricians and maintenance workers do not get staff housing, so they are not able to come here to be employed by housing. Only the maintenance manager and the housing manager are provided housing fo

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, thank you.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:] Were you directing this to me?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think that's out of my....

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:] Yes. It's more common. There are people who are transient, moving into other communities, or they become orphans or they lose their marriage, if there's a marriage breakup. Orphans who end up without parents end up with comp

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:] Thank you, Lori. Families increase. They may end up with one child, but as they have more children and end up having grandchildren, they have never vacated or moved into another house that's bigger, so there are a lot of peo

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, not on this one. Thank you.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. We are still researching funding opportunities for community housing projects that could probably be funded by the federal government. Although we allocated 20 new units, it has created more conflicts because families want to get their own units. One of the issues is having

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm Raigili Amaaq, chairperson for Igloolik Housing Association. Currently we have 284 public housing units, including the new constructions and leased units. We recently allocated 20 new units. We have a population of 2,014. I will speak about the commun