By Stephanie Taylor  THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA- The leader of a national Inuit organization says he cannot support federal legislation to create a national reconciliation council. The legislation, which passed unanimously in the House of Commons this week, would create a council to oversee Ottawa’s implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s 94 calls to action. At a press conference in Ottawa Friday, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed said the bill could result in recommendations “that may be completely out of sync” with Inuit positions, with only one seat on a board of nine to 13 people to be nominated by the organization. “We are still quite concerned, from a fundamental level, about being understood, and our rights being upheld and our institutions being supported in the

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