Money, or human lives?

With blizzard season upon us, many of us prep our vehicles, call the taxis, take the newly formed transit system or put on layer after layer in order to walk to work.

But what happens when the taxis get off the road and the city shuts down? For a lot of us, we get to stay home, but for some of the more unfortunate, work is still on schedule.

And what if we don’t conveniently live in the same building where we work, or don’t have a $50,000 SUV? We get punished for it. Our pay gets docked for things that are not in our control.

There is a group of people in Iqaluit who despise blizzards because most of the city shuts down.

They put a lot of influence on senior management to keep operations running and to make that extra buck. It seems that these people are clearly expressing what they feel is more important. Money, or human lives?

Jason Currie
Iqaluit