Nunavik projects get $680,000 for several community initiatives
Government of Quebec announces support for 7 projects
Maïté Blanchette Vézina, Quebec’s minister of natural resources and forestry, shown in this file photo at the Raglan mine facility, announced funding for projects in northern Quebec on Wednesday. (File photo by Cedric Gallant)
The Quebec government has announced approximately $680,000 for several initiatives in Nunavik.
Among the projects is one that will see a mixed-housing development in Kuujjuaq adapted for mental-health clientele, according to a government news release issued Wednesday.
Ungava Supervised Home, based in Kuujjuaq, will receive $100,000 to adapt plans for construction of a mixed-housing facility.
As well, Community Health Solutions TLS Nunavik based in Kuujjuaq is receiving $90,000 to set up a trilingual online store to promote the sale of Inuit handicrafts.
That organization provides workshops to help community members dealing with trauma and also offers assistance for suicide prevention, youth development and violence prevention.
Isuarsivik Regional Recovery Centre is getting two separate allotments. The first includes $100,000 to plan construction of an Inuit cultural workshop next to its main building in Kuujjuaq.
The second project, with funding of close to $90,000, is to purchase sport and outdoor equipment to set up a therapeutic family program.
In Inukjuak, Sirivik is getting $100,000 to acquire furniture and equipment for a professional community kitchen, a four-season greenhouse, a hydroponic container, office and meeting spaces.
Makivvik Corp. is also receiving $100,000 to conduct analyses of the water and wildlife of the George River watershed.
Also, Production Innu Assi is getting $100,000 to collect testimonials to document the skills and know-how of elders in Quaqtaq.
Maïté Blanchette Vézina, the province’s minister of natural resources and forestry and minister responsible for the Société du Plan Nord, announced the funding.
“The initiatives selected will contribute to the development of northern communities and the promotion of the territory,” she said in the release.
The amount of money that is pumped into nunavik is unreal , yet life for your average inuk never seems to get better.
The multiplicity of programs for such a small population creates a shortage of staff among institutions. Well connected Inuit go from one job to another or hold multiple roles, putting minimal time and commitment in each. When the program can’t run on its own, they hire from the South to prevent it from failing. How many on the land healing programs do we need? Where are the ‘hold a steady job, wake up in the morning, take care of your kids and send them to school’ programs?
This is the way that the governments allows the weak to be dependent on them. Give them free monies instead of educating them so that they can become independent. But no, there are more and more Inuit who are willing to stay at home, quit their education, be on welfare (more tax payers free money), stay at home get stoned, stay at home get drunk, be violently abusive, disrespect the towns authority such as police, social workers, teachers, town municipalities. The governments has been doing this to the Inuit since the 1960’s and this is what they want. They do not want us to be independent. They want us to die by suicide, to be murdered, to be a lazy member of the community. To have 5 or more children that will also becom dependent on their free tax payers services.