NRG proposal deserved to be defeated

The recent editorial regarding the Nunavik regional government proposal astonishes me. I seem to recall a previous editorial on the subject that was critical of the proposal.

I believe that the proposal deserved to be defeated. While the proposal may have offered some advantage to the way programs are administered, it failed to speak to what is really wanted by most Inuit of Nunavik; a government structure that clearly protects and promotes Inuit language, Inuit culture and the Inuit way of doing things.

Better, in my view, to turn it aside than to see an agreement by Inuit be taken by some as a final stage of a change process. The editorial recognises this but declares that such thinking is an example of Inuit being “fearful” of the future, implying that we are a cowardly people.

This is our land and it is our right and our duty to seek to mould governmental structures so that these structures promote and declare that this is the land of the Inuit.

Josepi Padlayat
Salluit

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