If you don’t like Nunavut, move

In reference to the recommendations of both the Nunavut government’s justice report and those made by the Nunavut Social Development Council, specifically that reference to “making a good person,” as a sporadic intrerpreter for the courts, I use that term all the time.

This good person/bad person refers to the personality of a person. An inuttiavik does not refer to whether a man is handsome or woman beautiful. A totally unkempt and poor looking person could be a saint compared to handsome, beautiful person with a disagreeable personality.

With the success of attaining our own Nunavut government; the attainment of land claims with all kinds of rights and financial benefits; the proliferation of Christian values as espoused by the Catholic, Anglican and Pentecostal churches; the understanding of a very large universe; a new world and an extra new life in the “great beyond;” and countless other blessings, I simply cannot understand why crimes still have to continue.

Or why hunters are said to be complaining about time changes when time is irrelevant out on the land, and why with millions in the bank (595 million and counting), millions more per year going to our government, and billions in surpluses for our nation, we still need to rebel.

Can’t we just get on with the business of living? There’s millions of square miles of open uninhibited country out there if we don’t like how things are in the communities. Start a new settlement or outpost camp or move to another part of Canada or the world if we don’t like it up here.

Thomas Suluk
Arviat