City targets bootleg snowmobile repair shop

One of Iqaluit’s newest enterprises is operating illegally and should be ordered to shut down, an Iqaluit council committee was told this week.

Michele Bertol, director of planning and lands, said a snowmobile repair shop which opened just after Christmas in a sea-can does not conform to zoning bylaws, which prohibit such businesses in the capital district zone.

The engineering and planning committee voted to recommend that council serve Marco Blanchette, son of Yvon Blanchette, who owns the site, with a notice to stop using the sea-can as a repair shop immediately.