Akitsiraq grads will be fully-qualified lawyers

I’m writing this letter as the chair for the Akitsiraq Law School Society.

I’ve been prompted to write this letter in response to the March 5 letter by Janson Biggs, who described our program like this: “a law school program made up of students who don’t have the academic qualifications to get accepted even into a third-rate undergraduate program in southern Canada.”

I would like to inform Janson Biggs that when these students graduate they’ll be getting a degree from the University of Victoria, whose faculty of law is consistently rated as the best undergraduate teaching law faculty in the country.

Also the professors that come and teach here come from all over Canada and are the cream of the crop. Our students would have to traipse all over the country to get this calibre of law school education in southern Canada.

Upon graduation they will be writing the same bar admission exams as southern law students and will emerge as fully qualified lawyers – so much for Mr. Biggs’ assertion.

As an educator with a degree from one of the best education faculties in Canada I applaud all those who strive to better themselves through continuing their education especially our students of the Akitsiraq Law School.

There will be and have been many who have tried to put you down, but remember that you are in the program because of your desire to become worthwhile contributers to the betterment of your inuuqatit. Now that is what makes this law school unique for everyone.

Alexina Kublu
Chair
Akitsiraq Law School Society