Unilingual Inuit left out of federal census: Nunavut MLAs – NunatsiaqOnline

March 15, 2016

Statistics Canada said it’s enumerated 280 households in Inuktitut so far

“Come back with an interpreter.”

That’s what many Inuktitut-speaking Nunavummiut have told Statistics Canada enumerators who surveyed people in Nunavut this winter to collect data for the federal census.

Quttiktuq MLA Isaac Shooyook, who says he speaks “just a little” English, had a recent visit from an English-speaking StatsCan enumerator at his home in Arctic Bay.

The enumerator returned later that afternoon with a local interpreter — on Shooyook’s request — but that shortcoming has slowed the process for many, he said.

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