Commissioner of Nunavut to create garden for Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
Garden will be located at Nunavut’s legislative assembly
Queen Elizabeth, pictured here visiting Nunavut in 2002, is marking 70 years on the throne. Nunavut is celebrating with her by planting a garden in her honour. (File photo)
Nunavut will be dedicating a garden to Queen Elizabeth to mark her platinum jubilee, in celebration of her 70 years on the throne.
Nunavut will be joining other provinces and territories across Canada, where each lieutenant-governor or territorial commissioner will lead the creation of their own gardens, states a news release from the Office of the Commissioner of Nunavut.
Each of the 13 gardens will have plants that are suited to its region’s climate.
Nunavut’s plants will be local and the transplanted onto a flowerbed beside the Legislative Assembly, says Wende Halonen, spokesperson for the commissioner’s office.
The garden will be unveiled in the summer.
Feb. 7 marked the 70th anniversary of when Queen Elizabeth took the throne, making her the first Canadian monarch to reach that milestone.
In a statement, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said a range of celebrations, projects and initiatives will be held across Canada this year to commemorate the Queen.
What are they doing for us though? What does the community, the territory benefit from this?
Nice gesture over all, but it doesn’t serve any of us, just puts her on a pedestal
Why? The monarchy is nothing more than an outdated relic of colonialism. It’s long past time to abolish the monarchy, for as long as the monarchy stands, we will never have reconciliation.
As long as we have people who are so intolerant of the values and heritage of others and wish to see it abolished, such as yourself, we can’t have reconciliation.
I have exactly zero interest in any “reconciliation” that requires the abolition of such a key part of our identity and history.
you mean like the Queen has done around the world? We absolutely should get rid of any sign of her in Canada, especially Indigenous spaces. We should be honouring our own heroes not a tyrant who is ok with murdering children. It’s ridiculous that you think we should honour that for you in our own land
hat no one, or few in Nunavut would want to celebrate the Queen is understandable.
On the other hand, the idea that the queen “okay with murdering children” is not merely hyperbolic non-sense, it’s the product of an unserious way of thinking that aims at sophisticated propaganda. It’s not the product of real education, but of a simplistic, reductive and distorted miseducation that believes it is saying something historically profound. In reality it is a noisy distortion that could only be uttered by those without any real sense of the past.
Let’s take a look at your evidence for this claim?
It seems likely that the real sense of angst here should be directed at ‘colonialism’ more generally, which Queen Elizabeth had very little, if anything at all, to do with.
We should, ideally, I hope, come to a point where we can discuss and analyze the past, including colonialism, through a more realistic lens, which accounts for patterns of human nature (Inuit, like many peoples before and since, exercised their own forms of settler colonialism, and you should know that… though many pretend not to).
So it is, as humans our moral sensibilities have changed over time (at least, we think they have). To judge everything in the past as if it happened today is to commit ourselves to a framework that has no real interest in understanding the past, but weaponizing it as a tool for whatever political interests one has today.
If you will allow me to put the lamentations about colonialism aside for one comment, the idea of having small public gardens, or something analogous to ‘green spaces’ in our communities in the summer is something I would really like to see developed,. I believe it would have mental health benefits for many of us.
It would be great to see more public spaces, it would be nice to have an outdoor rink, central so the kids could play, maybe even a solar panel heated dressing room. But that’s all dreams for now.
It might be dreams for now, but I think we could find ways of making some of those dreams happen.
Sounds like a $30 million dollar project. It would be slap in the face for all Municipalities in Nunavut if this goes ahead. Municipalities struggle to secure funds to build infrastructure in their communities.
How about we just build something else that represents the resilience of our people who endured hardships of living in the north for 4000+ years.
Something to build that should be beneficial for our people and let’s us know that we are strong.
Sincere question, where did you get 4,000 years from?