Nunavut MLAs set to debate language acts (fwd)

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Nunavut MLAs set to debate language acts

Last Updated: Monday, May 28, 2007 | 12:57 PM CT
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/05/28/nunavut-legislature.html

Nunavut's two proposed language acts are expected to dominate discussion
when MLAs return to work in Iqaluit Tuesday.

The proposed official languages act and Inuit language protection act will
be introduced by Culture, Language, Elders and Youth Minister Louis
Tapardjuk.

Under the official languages act, English, French and the Inuit languages of
Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun would be declared Nunavut's official languages.

The current act, inherited from the Northwest Territories when Nunavut
separated in 1999, includes other N.W.T. First Nations languages such as
Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, Gwich'in and Slavey.

The Inuit language protection act would give Inuit languages more priority
in the workplace, schools and public life.

The territory's energy strategy will also be on the agenda.

The session is expected to run for eight days.