NTI still looking at benefits options

This letter is to clarify a key point in your recent article “NTI can’t afford cash payouts to beneficiaries,” (March 7).

It is true that the work NTI did in 1999-2000 on taxation and other implications of paying direct cash benefits did raise some very real difficulties that were pointed out at our recent board meeting in Kinngait.

However, NTI is continuing to examine benefits options in accordance with the resolution of our last annual general meeting.

We are also going to be finding better ways to inform Inuit of the benefits they are already receiving under the land claims agreement. Sometimes those benefits can seem invisible, even though they are very real.

Paul Kaludjak
Vice President of Finance
Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.