Hon. Dennis Glen Patterson: Thank you, Senator Cormier, for your support for Indigenous languages. You remind me, with your passion, of Senator Joyal.

Senator, you know I represent a region with the highest proportion of Indigenous people in the country; 85% or more of the people of Nunavut are Inuit, and they largely still speak Inuktitut. It’s a bilingual radio station, newspaper, and I mean French and Inuktitut. Yet the federal government refuses to provide services in the Inuktitut language for its federal services in Nunavut, in contravention of the Nunavut government’s own Official Languages Act and Inuit Language Protection Act.

Do you have any comments on that in relation to your bill? Thank you.