Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, last month an elderly lady by the name of Agnes Iqquqaqtuq escorted her six-year-old adopted daughter from Pelly Bay to Edmonton for a medical check-up. There is nothing out of the ordinary here, Madam Speaker; a mother escorting a child from a small northern community to a big city except, of course, Agnes Iqquqaqtuq is unilingual. Neither the flight staff on board her flight, nor the airport employees in Yellowknife or Edmonton spoke or understood Inuktitut. Bernadette, her daughter, was too young to interpret for her.

There are other situations I've heard about and we have been lucky so far that nobody has been lost permanently. Will it take a tragedy before we fix the problem? Madam Speaker, I will be pursuing this matter with the appropriate Minister at question period. Thank you.