- [Interviewer] I'm not gonna be able to pronounce your names.
You have beautiful names.
What is it again?
- Annie Opkik
- Annie Opkik. And?
- Matto Opiga.
- Annie Opkik and Matto.
- We're here in Ottawa and you two are homeless.
- Yes.
- And you're Inuit.
- Yeah.
- Can you tell me about that?
- We're not really homeless,
We're just being (mumbles) everyday and all that.
So, we gotta place to stay.
- You're in the shelter.
- My mother has a daughter-in-law who has twins.
A boy and a girl, so ...
We're still in the waitings for Ottawa housing.
It's taking forever.
- Now, where are you originally from?
- Nunavut, Iqualuit.
- And you're an Inuit.
- Yeah, we're Inuit. Eskimo.
- Yeah.
- Real.
- We're from the Puffin Island.
Do you know where that is?
- No. North, right?
- Yeah. Top of the world.
- So you were talking some of your language earlier.
You were saying hello.
How do you say hello?
- Qanuippit.
- That's beautiful.
- How do you say (speaks Inukitut)
- And what does that mean?
- I'm okay, you're okay.
- Yeah.
- What other common sayings? Greetings?
- (speaks Inukitut) It means, "Where you from?"
- Yeah. So now you've been here for 15 months you told me.
- Yes.
- And you came here for family.
- Yes.
- Where?
- We have a lot of family here in Southland.
East and west we have families.
We've got a lot of families here.
Yeah, and west.
- You're waiting on Ottawa housing to get some housing.
- Yes. It's been like, over eight months, seven months now.
- Wow.
- It's gonna take forever. I know that.
- What is your future like?
- My future?
- Yeah.
- I was a janitor in schools back home.
I was a janitor.
- So hope to get some work here?
- Yeah, I hope so. Yeah.
Same as the job I had before.
- If you had three wishes, what would they be?
- Go back home for awhile, be a millionaire,
(laughing) and eat country food.
- And you, ma'am. If you had three wishes?
(speaking Inukitut)
- Pray to God we'll have a house.
- Wow. Well, thank you very much for talking to me.
- Ilaali.
- When I say Ilaali, you say thank you.
- Thank you.
(speaking Inukitut)
- Thank you.
- Same thing.
- Thank you very much for talking to me.