We spoke to Mary Simon who is the President for Inuit Tapaariit Kanadami.

Simon says she attended the first ministers meeting in Ottawa last week and she met with the Prime Ministers, Premiers and Territorial Premiers.

She says the discussions was about the upcoming federal budget that will be announced tomorrow January 27th-2009.

Simon says the purpose of ITK was to be there for the needs they have in the Arctic and the needs that the Inuit have in the Arctic is for more housing or other infrastructure development, education and skills training and those are some of the things that ITK would like to see the in stimulus package.

She adds this meeting they held with the Prime Ministers and Premiers was not a meeting to make a decision, it was meeting where they can present their priority for the upcoming federal budget and the kind of investment they would like to see in the North and Arctic.