Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll send you my scribbles. I've gone through the act and shown the changes that I would make here and there. One of them is that anywhere in the act that says “may”, that should be changed to either “must” or “shall”. “May” is waffling. “Must” means it has to get done.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Qujannamiik. Yes, I think the levels of funding need to vary, because one level does not cover all. The ones where.... Revitalization takes a different form of presenting, whereas maintaining is a different way. You cannot treat the two as one. They are separate. Therefore, whe

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There have been some changes, but the changes are largely at the grassroots level. We now have an Inuit language television channel, but that is the initiative of Zach Kunuk, who is the filmmaker of Atanarjuat, which was all in Inuktitut. Then we have a former instructor who hold

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, it's Leena Evic in Nunavut.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I did it again. [Witness spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:] I apologize. Thank you, Lori. We have mentioned many times at the ministerial task force that if you take indigenous language protection seriously, provinces have to support their people and their region in

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Qujannamiik. Language is not something that belongs only in the schools, and it does not belong only out on the land. It belongs everywhere. When you become as old as I am—almost 70—you end up doing a lot of stuff in your life. One of the things that I have done is be a justice

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are times when we feel that the federal government is very far away. Information does not trickle down to us that rapidly. We haven't seen much change at all during this time, I'm sad to say.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Currently, in the teacher education program, the instructors have to speak Inuktitut to our students. It's not just hearing it; we're teaching the class in Inuktitut.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's not just having a subject. It's not just the subject of Inuktitut—which, I'm sad to say, beyond grade four, is what it is in the schools. Inuktitut is no longer a language of instruction, but a subject, and all of the other subjects are in English. What we're trying to do

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Now I'm unmuted. I do that when I'm teaching as well. The traditional method of passing on knowledge among Inuit is—as I think it is among other peoples, as well—by doing. It's by watching and doing, not sitting down in a classroom and having someone talk and talk and talk at yo

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:] Thank you, Mr. Garneau. I am thinking that it's very short notice, and five minutes is very short. Given the five minutes that we have, I want to inform you that I have given you my biography ahead of time. I teach the In