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OTTAWA - When Lorraine Whitman's father, Chief Joseph Peters, asked for a cup of tea in his native Mi'kmaq, the care-home staff could not understand him.
OTTAWA — When Lorraine Whitman's father, Chief Joseph Peters, asked for a cup of tea in his native Mi'kmaq, the care-home staff could not understand him.
The president of the Inuit representative body for treaty rights and negotiations said it's only by recognizing Inuktitut as one of Canada's official languages that schools would receive guaranteed support and funding to teach in Inuktitut, as do English and French schools.