Procedure and House Affairs committee  My office is always open for any agency that wants to find out more about Inuktitut or Inuvialuktun terminology or anything. We would extend our resources to assist any agency, including Elections Canada.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. That's a great question, Ms. Idlout. I think one of our strengths is that the majority of the office staff speak Inuktitut, but I think the dialectal differences are something that we struggle with all the time. Moving forward and as Nunavut standardize

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Pre-COVID, it was in the high sixties. In our last general election, during the height of our pandemic, it was in the low fifties.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We have lots of different dialects within Inuktitut-speaking communities. Our translations come straight out of Rankin Inlet. Our Inuktitut is from a small town just north of Rankin Inlet. It doesn't meet the standard of Grise Fiord. It's a separate dialect, but amazingly, Inukti

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can speak for Nunavut's experience. We live and breath Inuktitut, so for us it's not a question of difficulties or challenges. This is what we do, so I can't speak to what Elections Canada's challenges are. Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The chief electoral officers from across Canada meet as a group at least once a year, so yes, I've met with Mr. Perrault numerous times.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for the question on efficiency and whether sharing between the federal agencies and territorial agencies always works out 100%. Absolutely, this is something that we're working on. We're always in discussions. No one's ever going to say no to sharing our Inuktitut and

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, we are legally required to have poll workers who speak the language of the community. That's where it says so. It doesn't say, “French,” “Inuktitut” or “Inuktut”; it just says that whatever languages the communities speak, our poll workers must speak that as well. Thank you

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's always important. Our population is increasing. Even though in this last general election we saw a slight decrease in voting, we can attribute that to COVID-19. In preparations, my office always ensures that our Inuktitut language and Inuinnaqtun language are strong. Four o

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for the question, Ms. Idlout. Absolutely, the legislative assembly, where my budget comes from, has always been very generous when it comes to ensuring that all of our information is in all four languages. It's never a question of being underfunded for that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm an instrument of my politicians. My work is not something that I make up. They meet, like you, and they tell me how they'd like to see my office proceed, when it comes to running elections. If you're asking for my personal views on reconciliation, and how it would work with

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, for the example you see, this is exactly what a ballot would look like. Of the 25 communities, 23 use syllabics, the language you probably don't read. Then two of the communities use the roman orthography, but as you've noticed from the last example, it's written in Inuinnaq

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In conjunction with the federal election in 2019, we had our municipal elections, which we hosted. Our advance vote was on election day, so we shared many of the same venues with Elections Canada in 2019. Anything that leaves my office is in all four languages. Our Twitter accoun

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Our elections are 35 days.