Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's since mid-2009.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would add that what Mr. Kusugak is saying shows that the sheer magnitude of the problem of hunger in Nunavut shows that the investment from Canada must be much greater. The food mail program is just a small part of that. Thank you.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  NTI was asked by the minister's office to put forward names, possibilities. Some of those people may have applied. We don't yet know who was selected, but that was the extent of NTI's involvement. We weren't involved at all in any development of terms of reference for the committ

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's right. In particular it's the resources. We're very concerned that the board be adequately funded over time and have the necessary secretariat and terms of reference to actually monitor and track what's happening with the program over time in terms of eligible items, and a

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. To add to what Mr. Kaludjak was saying, the $137 million annually is lost Inuit wages and the cost of importing labour from the south to take jobs in the Nunavut government public service that are intended by the land claim agreement to be taken by the Inui

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's right.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Primarily, yes. The Government of Nunavut has adopted a bilingual education strategy, which follows on the Berger report. They did this before the Berger report came out, but there hasn't been the money to implement it. Thank you.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. The district education authorities are very active and engaged, for the most part, in the communities. Their capacity to act and influence the education system varies greatly, as you can imagine, from community to community. But the most severe issue is the shortage o

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. Very briefly, to add to the answer to Mr. Lemay's question, Mr. Berger has stated that the only solution is to provide a bilingual system that works, and that would require bilingual education starting in pre-school and going through grade 12, with Inuktitut still be

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. I can respond to that question in terms of what Mr. Berger has found and what PricewaterhouseCoopers found in its analysis of the cost if the bilingual education system in Nunavut is not established in a successful way. What he reported is that there will be a net dol