Status of Women committee  Pauktuutit just completed, by coincidence, a document called “Keepers of the Light”, which I can get you. We really boiled a strategic plan down to four items, from the perspective of Inuit women. The very first one is about economic stability, but it goes to political issues too

Status of Women committee  It's very difficult because of the distances and the remoteness and the isolation. It's also difficult because there are all these gender problems right now too, and then the hunting I mentioned. What we really need to do is look at education across the high north and decide what

Status of Women committee  Is there a relationship between language maintenance and economic development? That's a very interesting question. It depends upon what you mean by economic development. If what you're talking about is jobs right now--

Status of Women committee  What percentage? It is a very serious problem in the north. Who decides whether someone is in good mental and physical health? If you're a smoker and you have diabetes, you have no income and you have five children, are you in good mental and physical health? It's a mess. It is r

Status of Women committee  Yes, if it isn't pre-designed and one-size-fits-all. The needs for early childhood in the north--well, anywhere, but in the north is where we're talking about today--vary from town to town and from community to community. But, yes, if we looked after the...can we start at prenata

Status of Women committee  Thank you. The suicide rate I was referring to is for teenage suicide. And I didn't say 18% or 17%; I said 17 times higher than the regular Canadian numbers. It's just outrageous. There are all sorts of theories. Most of them are boys. Hunting is changing in the north due to di

Status of Women committee  Yes, Canada needs a national housing.... I'll just describe housing in the high north a little bit. Sometime in the fifties, somebody designed a house that they thought might work up there, and everybody's putting them up there all over the place. I think they drive by in airpl

Status of Women committee  We have not found any government support to talk about racism at all. But I must confess that we have so many crises in the north that this isn't one of the priorities at the moment. We haven't looked hard for it, but we would love to see it, if there is any. I couldn't agree m

Status of Women committee  I agree. For the Inuit, to go back to what you were asking about a few minutes ago, the data are abysmal, as everybody knows. When people travel to the Far East, to China and Japan, and say that the people there are all the same people, it's that offensive when people lump toget

Status of Women committee  I will, before this day is out.

Status of Women committee  It's on the website?

Status of Women committee  Thank you for that clarification. I appreciate that.

Status of Women committee  We're in very close conversation with our colleagues at the Status of Women, and we do discuss potentials and they do tell us. I don't know if this committee knows this, but I mentioned earlier that we get our core funding from Heritage Canada, which is the other part, but that's

Status of Women committee  The Status of Women people.

Status of Women committee  The public servants who we work with are saying, “We had a fund last year to look at this, that, and the other, but we don't have that fund this year, so don't bother.”