New Year’s resolutions we’d like to see

Most of us are used to the making of solemn promises for the New Year – and some of us even used to keeping them.

But wouldn’t it be fun to see people making those resolutions that we, not they, think they should keep?

* Iqaluit Mayor Elisapie Sheutiapik: She resolves to bring some of that great Grind ‘n’ Brew coffee into Iqaluit’s city council chambers, to keep everyone awake during those long meetings.
* Makivik Corporation President Pita Aatami: Whenever someone asks him a question about Nunavik self-government during a live radio broadcast, he resolves that he will smile and say: “Thank you for your excellent question.”
* Education Minister Ed Picco: He resolves to take singing lessons before recording his next CD.
* Finance Minister Leona Aglukkaq: She resolves to balance the GN’s budget next year.
* Nunavik singer Elisapie Isaac, and Nunavut singer Lucie Idlout: They resolve to put out more great albums.
* Theatre owner Bryan Pearson: He resolves to host a northern film festival at the Astro Theatre.
* Environment Minister Olayuk Akesuk: He resolves to pay his rent.
* Nunavut Premier Paul Okalik: He resolves to compile a Rolodex file of his many friends, to consult when making GN appointments.
* The staff at Puvirnituq’s Iguarsivik School: They resolve to continue their efforts to combat violence in their community.
* The Department of Fisheries and Oceans: They resolve to find better ways of communicating with Inuit hunters.
* Heather Tickie Ochalski and Jennifer Long: They resolve to keep running their excellent web discussion board at www.iglootalk.com.
* Iqaluit’s break-in artists: They resolve to leave more fingerprints and footprints lying around, so the courts can more easily throw them in jail.
* CBC Iqaluit: They resolve to sign an advertising contract with Waste Matters Inc., to formalize their already close relationship.
* Iqaluit’s property tax deadbeats: They resolve to stop making excuses.
* The Tahera Diamond Corporation: They resolve to abide by the terms of their agreement with the Kitikmeot Inuit Association, and will hire as many Inuit as they can for the Jericho mine.
* Nunavut MLAs: They next time they get together to create a “Pinasuaqtavut,” they resolve to add a line saying that they will do something to combat alcohol and drug abuse.
* Members of the Nunavut Employees Union: They resolve to count their blessings.
* Levinia Brown, Nunavut’s health minister: She resolve to ensure that Nunavut’s new health centres are fully staffed.
* Nunavut’s young people: They resolve to value life over everything else.
* First Air and Greenland Air: They will find a way of reviving a scheduled service between Greenland and the eastern Canadian Arctic.
* The Nunavut Power Corporation: They resolve to balance their books before they drag all of Nunavut into bankruptcy. JB