Idlout assigned 5 critic roles for NDP in Parliament
Nunavut MP was one of the party’s 7 members left standing after April 28 federal election
Nunavut MP Lori Idlout, seen during a public forum in Iqaluit on April 22, has been handed five critic roles for the NDP by interim party Leader Don Davies. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)
Nunavut MP Lori Idlout now wears five critics’ hats for the NDP in the House of Commons.
The second-term member of Parliament is the federal party’s critic for Arctic sovereignty and security, Natural Resources, Indigenous Affairs, Justice, and Northern and Atlantic Economic Development, interim NDP Leader Don Davies announced May 28.
Idlout was re-elected in the April 28 federal election that saw the NDP ranks shrink, with seven members elected after holding 24 seats in the previous Parliament. The outcome led Jagmeet Singh to resign as party leader, after losing his own riding in British Columbia.
The Liberals under Prime Minister Mark Carney formed the government by winning 169 seats — three shy of a majority government, while the Conservatives formed the official Opposition with 144 seats. The Bloc Québécois won 22 seats and the Green Party captured one seat.
Everyone’s a critic …
Given that the NDP is now the 4th party and has no official status I don’t think we should read much into these largely symbolic appointments.
Ms Idlout is a true champion for all things inuit but I genuinely don’t think she has it in her to look out for the interests of all canadians, Inuit or not. She does a great job standing out for nunavut inuit but not much else. I’m sure she’ll eventually find her way towards NTI or ITK presidency.
LOL
Think Green, vote Green. The only party to reject the push to having the military decide most everything we do was and is the Green Party. Canada has lost its sensibility in going full hog toward a 2 party option. The USA political scene with corporations deciding everything, where 2 parties heavily dependant on donors’ money serve the business elite, it is the fresh new look Canada. We have lost, should we survive a nuclear war… It will be clear in the Carney’s administration’s term. Nations, the homelands crumble to the call of the war economy. Europe gambles on an economic rebuild based on WAR, as was done in the 1930/40s and dim Carney leads us there. Our late PM and Nobel Peace Prize recepiant the late Micheal Pearson is rolling in his grave,.
I would sooner vote ” BLOC ” , then ” GREEN ” . The green would destroy the economy trying to turn it green !!!
Normally we see a lot of right wing conspiracy theorist here in the Nunatsiaq comments, but today we’re lucky to see a rare sighting of the left wing conspiracy theorist…
“The only party to reject the push to having the military decide most everything we do was and is the Green Party.”
When has this ever been true in Canada?
Lester B. Pearson, addendum.
Lester B. “Mike” Pearson, was an influential diplomat, politician, and Canada’s 14th prime minister. As a diplomat, he laid the groundwork for NATO. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership at the United Nations during the Suez Crisis. As prime minister, Pearson promoted bilingualism, championed the new Canadian flag, and introduced important social measures, including the medicare system and the Canada Pension Plan.
Pearson was born in Ontario and educated at Victoria University (Toronto) and Oxford. He served in the First World War during which he acquired his nickname “Mike”.
It was good to see Nunavut’s MP vote with her fellow NDP, MPs, and the Bloc. Supporting the conservative motion amendment to the throne speech. Passed 166 to 164.
The motion called for the Liberals to table a budget this spring. Not who knows when in the late fall… December?
It’s symbolically a no-confidence vote for pressure to be placed on the Liberals to produce a budget now. Because it is not acceptable for the Liberals to spend billions on who knows what without a budget.
These are the words of someone that doesn’t know what it takes to create a government’s main estimates. Take the GN, for example. A much, much smaller government, has already begun its budgeting process for the 2026-27 fiscal year. That the budget that starts in April, 2026 if you’re not aware. The same fiscal year that the federal government operates on. Targets are issued by the Department of Finance, all departments begin business planning and business cases, job descriptions will need to be written and evaluated by HR, coordination between program staff, policy staff, finance staff, and sometimes legal staff has to occur.
When Mark Carney became Prime Minister, the federal government budget was already done. It just hadn’t been approved because there was an upcoming election. To ask for a full federal budget to be done in 3 months is wild. You’ll just end up with pretty close to the budget that had been prepared in May, and then people will whine and complain that Carney is “just like Trudeau”, because it will look like a Trudeau budget. Then they’ll complain that Carney “didn’t follow the budget”, because it won’t be a budget based on his government’s priorities.
It’s a lose-lose to ask for a Spring budget from a government elected a week before Spring.
Inuit use to be very poor, only foods to eat were country foods. Whatever they can eat.
In those offices and becoming recognized at a workplaces anywhere, it is still pretty much alive. Very poor communication, letting only families know, that’s the problem, it’s not all fear. Alot of neglect. Bad place to grow up finances for local Inuit, no families making for many young adults, no enjoyment.