Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have a petition here from 45 residents of Holman Island, Petition 24-13(4). The petition states, we the undersigned are concerned with the preservation of our language. We wish to voice our concerns about the changes that are being implemented against our wishes as parents of the children being taught with these changes and against the wishes of the elders. Presently the Kitikmeot Board of Education is using the letters q, r and s in our written autography when they are not part of our local dialect for much of the Kitikmeot region. We want this implementation stopped immediately. We want our language preserved the way our elders know it and we want our dialect respected in its' distinctness.

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