NAM has campaigned against violence too

Lest it be forgotten, many mayors and councils of Nunavut are on the frontlines regarding domestic violence, child abuse and many other forms of violence against women and children.

The Nunavut Association of Municipalities has been actively engaged for the past two years in trying to get a child advocate established in Nunavut.

And when it appeared that the federal Department of Justice was going to be soft on a man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage girl, the hamlet council of Cambridge Bay raised awareness of this issue by asking the Department of Justice to consider banishing the man for three years when determining the sentence for this crime.

For the past three years, the same hamlet council has struggled to keep its women’s crisis shelter open by justifying to the GN why we require additional funding support.

It’s nice to see the ministers from the government of Nunavut taking a stand alongside the mayors, councils, and other folks who recognize that violence against women and children is clearly unacceptable and intolerable in this day and age in Nunavut.

Keith Peterson
Mayor Cambridge Bay