They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit
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To mark the occasion of the University of Toronto conferring an honorary degree on Zacharias Kunuk: Professor Smaro Kamboureli, in collaboration with Hot Docs, is hosting the premiere screening of Zacharias Kunuk’s film, They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit (2025).
They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit (2025): Through interviews with Inuit across Nunavut and documentation of a three-year community hearing process during the COVID pandemic, interwoven with his family’s relations with the land, award-winning filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk explores what meaningful consultation in the 21st century means within the context of a large-scale mining expansion on Baffin Island. (In Inuktut with English subtitles and some English dialogue.)
Join director Zacharias Kunuk and producer Sam Cohn-Cousineau for a post-screening conversation, moderated by Smaro Kamboureli, Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto.
Free tickets available: A limited number of free tickets is available. If you’re certain you will attend, please contact Smaro at smaro.kamboureli@utoronto.ca to request one.
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