Confusing information about student assistance?

Last spring, I enquired about getting funding to return to school down south. I was told that I would have had to be away from Nunavut for less than a year.

This morning, I enquired about funding for a family member who has been away from Nunavut for less than a year. I was told that they would have had to have been a Nunavut resident for the past 12 months.

Is the government being run by an individual’s preferred ideas, or by whatever information they want to give away at the time?

A few months ago, the criteria was “away from Nunavut for 12 months or less.” Today the criteria is “resident of Nunavut for the past 12 months.”

I raised this question to the politicians who look for our votes several months ago and it was being “looked into.”

I’m glad I’m not holding my breath.

Martha Toka-Peet
Winnipeg