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A newly unearthed document outlines how Canada’s federal government blocked language protections in Nunavut

A cabinet document from 1990 authorizing land claims settlement negotiations explicitly ruled out protections for Inuktitut.

By Jim Bell, Nunatsiaq News December 10, 2019
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Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. is marking the end of the International Year of Indigenous Languages by releasing a 30-year-old federal cabinet document that they allege “blocked use of Inuktitut in government services in the territory.”

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