Nunavut MP opposes Canada’s federal Indigenous languages bill

Tootoo and other Inuit advocates worry that the creation of a national Indigenous languages commissioner’s office will do little to halt such languages' decline.

By Nunatsiaq News February 22, 2019
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Nunavut’s Hunter Tootoo was the sole MP to vote against the second reading of Bill C-91, a proposed Indigenous languages law on Wednesday, Feb. 20.

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