NTI hopes CBC lockout ends soon

(This is a copy of letter sent to Nunavut MP Nancy Karetak-Lindell.)

I am writing to you to express how much we as an organization rely on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Nunavut Tunngavik has been relying on CBC to let the beneficiaries of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement know what we are doing on their behalf.

Since the CBC employees have been locked out it has kept the beneficiaries in the dark as to the developments at NTI.

A few examples are the numerous press releases from NTI that have not been heard because of the lockout, as well as the most successful harvest of a bowhead whale since Inuit have been able to harvest bowheads.

There are a number of things that we have been doing since the lockout and it seems that we are forgotten, even though we are still working for the Inuit beneficiaries.

I would urge you, along with other MPs, to push the Prime Minister to end this lockout so that Inuit could be more informed on what is happening regionally as well as territory wide.

I thank you in advance of your reply and I hope that the lockout ends soon with the satisfaction of everyone involved.

Raymond Ningeocheak
2nd Vice President
Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.