We want southern dollars, but not southern people?

It was with interest that I read about the deep water port for Iqaluit and the need for infrastructure money. I see Pangnirtung is supposed to get $25 million for a deep water port?
 
Reaching retirement age and having visited Pangnirtung a couple of years ago, my wife and I have considered a move to the North. However, I cannot see how anyone from down south can consider moving north when there is so much discrimination against non-Inuit.
 
It really surprises me that non-Inuit does not receive the same health benefits (story of March 14, 2010) and do not seem likely to in the near future.  I don’t believe that would happen if an Inuk moved to Lindsay, Ont. and got ill.
 
I was particularly disturbed by the treatment of the Anglican minister, Mike Gardener who had spent more than 50 years in the north. I mean after all, it is home for him. Why should an MLA have to raise the issue in the first place?
 
The one other issue I would like to raise is the discriminatory restrictions placed on, non-Inuit travel in the parks. How can it be fair, let alone constitutionally legal, to say I can sled the sea ice and the land but not go into the parks. That really goes against everything I was brought up to believe about our country.
 
Inasmuch as southerners, if I can call them that, contributed a lot of the GN cash, I am disappointed with this stance. This two-rule policy is highlighted when you ask for $65 million to $73 million for a port, federal dollars to which I contributed.  

We want your southern tax dollars, but not you?
 
As retirees, we would be bringing cash to the territory. At any rate, this is food for thought for both of us I suppose. We loved being in the north and met the most gracious people.
 
David Thomas
Lindsay, Ont.

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