MLAs make the people look stupid

My name is Eva Lucassie. I am originally from Iqaluit, Nunavut, but I am now living in Ottawa, Ontario.

I am only 20 years old and I lack a lot of needed education, but I am writing to you on my views about my home-town.

I was watching CBC Northbeat and I saw that the MLAs are asking for a raise. Why do they want a raise? Haven’t they made us Inuit look stupid enough already? I feel that they do not do very much.

They will not give the needy people of Iqaluit a badly-needed food bank, but they’ll most probably give these politicians a raise I feel they do not deserve.

What is the raise for anyway? Don’t they get free housing, free trips, etc? Did they go through all that education to rip off their own people? Why don’t they use the money for something more useful?

I’m sure you’re not going to see any of these politicians quit their jobs if they do not get a raise. I wish that the rest of the Inuit would speak out.

I greatly feel that these politicians should not get a raise until they deserve one. I hear you are opening a French school. Where is the Inuktitut school?

I will be very disappointed if they get a raise, and I hope that the Inuit in Iqaluit start speaking out about things that are happening in their community. Don’t they have a say in all these things that happen to them?

I am sorry if I have angered anybody, but this is only one person’s opinion. I wish I could hear more about the opinions of Inuit.

Thank you for listening to my opinions.
Eva Lucassie
Ottawa