He says the trip is a special one because he loves dogs and the North, and looks forward to learning from the Inuk community.
As a bilingual Inuk, she said unilingual Inuit can approach her without worries about communication.
She's in Ottawa because her daughter, seven-year-old Patrina Murphy, the first Inuk to undergo a heart transplant, must now be close to a specialized hospital.
One picture shows a beautiful Inuk girl wrapped in a red scarf.
Okalik is a confident, well-educated, liberal-minded modernist, living proof that with hard work, and a little education, any Inuk can go out into the world and do great things.
Police arrested a young Inuk man in connection with the incident and took him into custody in Whapmagoostui.
Gordon ran on a campaign to bring more Inuit representation to council, which is now made up of four Inuit and four non-Inuit councillors, plus an Inuk mayor.
All the officials involved knew that the deaf Inuk was entitled to an interpreter, but how could one be provided?
This will never be their home in the sense that it would be for an Inuk.
But the pattern that has been subsequently demonstrated across a number of sites is wholly consistent with the traditional Inuk account.
If it was night school, I would still be comfortable in the traditional and cultural part of my life as an Inuk.
But if an Irishman were to tell an Inuk a story about giants, or vice versa, either would understand exactly what the other was talking about.
When I arrived in Frobisher Bay in 1956, every Inuk owned his own home.
On 13 April, Ouligbuck, the Inuk interpreter who had served with Franklin's second expedition, arrived from Ungava via Red River.
I for one would like my daughter to be represented as an Inuk living in a city.
A buddy of mine went into an art gallery and bought a carving and he was all happy about how he'd gotten this Inuk carving.
As an Inuk, getting water with a bucket was just what Inuit people did all the time without payment.
Under the court injunction, an Inuk in Nunavut cannot be fined for having an unregistered gun.
Nunavut's only Inuk lawyer, Okalik may also be a shoo-in again for the justice portfolio in the next government.
Chances are good that if you go to tell an Inuk about some traditional story, they will have already heard a version of it.