Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want this House to know that I had a struggle when we were deliberating this in the Standing Committee on Finance. I did defend it. However, after a period of time I reconsidered and will not be supporting it. Part of what you have said is true, Madam Premier. I was the employee of D.I.A.N.D. in the Inuit section when we were planning to move the Inuktitut magazine which was taken over by I.T.C. plus all the carvings which were collected, not stolen, collected from various artists across the north, including Labrador and northern Quebec. If my memory serves me correctly, these artifacts and carvings which we inherited from the federal government were to be divided by Labrador, northern Quebec and a good portion was claimed by the Museum of Man. If I remember correctly, most of the collection that we are talking about, which the government likes to house, came from Cape Dorset, Baker Lake, Rankin Inlet, Coppermine, Holman Island, Pangnirtung and Clyde River. Should it be that these artifacts are housed in an area where the majority of the artists are not even from the community? This is the question
I asked myself. Should they not be going to Cape Dorset? Should they not be going to Cape Dorset? This is the very reason why we need to have a plan that makes sense and allocate proper funding for this. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.