Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Unfortunately, Ms. Bérubé, I cannot answer your question today, but I do want to say that I share the sentiments that Mr. Schultz expressed earlier.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:] I know federal government employees go to Inuit communities. They need to be more visible in the Inuit communities so that they can have a better understanding of our language today, and where it stands. They can get a better appreciation for language protection acts that will protect Inuit languages.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, I think maybe we can see where the youth are today. TikTok is everywhere. Everybody I see up north has TikTok—all my children. Maybe a TikTok account with language specifically could be created. It could be as simple as two or three words a day. Then we could make sure that it's reaching the youth.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:] Perhaps we can do research globally to see if there are some countries where there are indigenous peoples who lost their language and if they've managed to revive it. That would be a great area to start: to conduct a study on indigenous peoples globally.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The Avataq Cultural Institute is an independent entity that represents our culture. It is there to safeguard our culture and language. Again, this is an entity that lacks funding. They are limited to what they can do within our communities. There's a dictionary project that's taking place right now.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As for Nunavik, first, we're still under the jurisdiction of Quebec, so we don't have a self-government per se, but there are recommendations that have been set forth in the llirijavut report, which was written by Zebedee Nungak and Adamie Kalingo. In there, they identified recommendations that came out from workshops and the different meetings that were held in the region, so I think it's a matter of having meetings with the youth and the elders and trying to bridge the gap between the two generations and make this attractive for the youth to go to.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:] I am Kitty Gordon from Kuujjuaq. I grew up in Kuujjuaq. My mother, grandparents and family brought me up. [English] I come from Nunavik, which is the region above the 55th parallel that is located in northern Quebec. There are roughly 14,000 inhabitants spread out in 14 communities.