Iqaluit loses power as election results roll in
QEC confirms community-wide outage late Monday night
NDP candidate Lori Idlout’s campaign party at the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum in Iqaluit is illuminated by floodlights Monday night after power went out in the city. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)
A community-wide power outage left Iqaluit in the dark Monday night while federal election results were being tabulated.
The lights went out at 11:42 p.m. at the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum, where NDP candidate Lori Idlout and her supporters were holding their election night party.
The building’s emergency floodlights went on, and the party’s attendees shifted from viewing results on a projector screen to watching them while gathered around a laptop.
Shortly after, Qulliq Energy Corp. confirmed on Facebook there was a community wide-power outage.
At 12:21 a.m., the museum lights came back on.
At that point, no winner had been declared yet in the Nunavut race but Idlout, the incumbent MP, was in the lead.
This is a good metaphor for an Idlout win…
There was space for an independent with superior ideas to share.
Didn’t see you there.
Subtle foreshadowing of what’s to come?