Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay, 30 seconds. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to point out that we are in a great nation, Canada. The Arctic is really not a third world country. As much as I appreciate a year or two years' storage, I think in Canada we ought to be able to have reasonably fresh things to eat.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. Article 32 actually says that on all social issues--like this one, for example--Inuit have to be consulted, and that they will help to develop programs and suggest programs that the government would be working with us on. Most of the time there's absolutely no consultation,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. This is the kind of consultation they're talking about when they ask us to look at the websites or comment on the decisions they've made. Laurie was pointing out to me that since 2009 there has been no involvement of NTI or any other Inuit organization.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have, under the claim, set up the hunters and trappers organizations in every one of the 26 different communities, and they can certainly be utilized to decide exactly how that would be done. Unfortunately, Shelly Glover is not here anymore. She was saying that you don't acc

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Madam Shelly Glover was suggesting that we should go to the website. That is not a good consultation process. I think we want to be actively involved in developing perhaps a website even, to decide exactly what could be included in every aspect of NNC. Since 2009, I think, we h

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  So we haven't been well consulted at all.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Not in the new one.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Right now there's very little access to commercial country foods, but where people do share country foods, they often go on community radio to find out who might be travelling from Rankin Inlet to Iqaluit, for example, and whoever is travelling on that certain day will be given a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, yes, that's true. As a matter of fact, when there are children who actually haven't eaten for a few days, there are people who.... My wife is a teacher, and she happens to be sitting over there. She was telling us that some of the children do go to school, and when the te

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, as a matter of fact, this afternoon I did read in the news that they're developing that advisory committee, and I was wondering exactly that, whether Nunavut Tunngavik would actually be considered for the committee.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We had some involvement in the old system.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness speaks in Inuktitut] Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for the opportunity, by the way, to speak to you today. Nunavut Tunngavik represents the Inuit who live primarily in Nunavut territory in 25 communities and three time zones across Canada’s Arctic. Almost 50% of th