Repatriation, reconciliation and Arctic issues

Natan Obed, the president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the organization representing the 60,000 Inuit in Canada, was among the people greeting Charles and Camilla on the tarmac.

It's his second time meeting the King, the first having been at Buckingham Palace in 2022, just before Charles's coronation that year.

"At the time, it seemed like a really exceptional moment to be able to put reconciliation and Indigenous peoples' issues at the very front of the King's new agenda," Obed told CBC’s Adrienne Arsenault from the airport.

Obed said reconciliation, climate change, recognition of Inuit sovereignty and repatriation of Inuit artifacts and human remains from museums in the U.K. are among priorities he has raised with the King.

"The relationship with the King and the Crown is not only practical through our treaties and our association with Canada as a nation state, but it also is ambitious in that we can look forward and imagine doing more together," he said.