Nunavut 1999–2019: two decades of struggle and change | ᓄᓇᕗᑦ 1999-2019: ᐊᕐᕌᒍᑦ ᐊᕙᑎᑦ ᐊᒃᓱᕈᕐᓇᕐᓂᖅ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᓯᙳᕐᓂᖅ
Five legislative assemblies, made-in-Nunavut laws, shifting time zones, diamonds and gold ᑕᓪᓕᒪᐃᕐᓱᖅᖢᑎᒃ ᒪᓕᒐᓕᕆᔨᕐᔪᐊᖃᕐᓯᒪᔪᑦ, ᓄᓇᕗᒥᑦ ᓴᓇᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᐱᖁᔭᕐᔪᐊᑦ, ᖃᐅᔨᓴᐅᑎᒥᒃ ᐊᓯᙳᐃᓂᖅ, ᑕᐃᒪᓐᔅ ᐊᒻᒪ ᒎᓗᐃᑦ
Nunavut’s MLAs gather for the territory’s first session of its legislative assembly in 1999. (File photo)
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No addition of the most recent Leg were they tossed out the Inuktitut Language requirement in Education by 2019 so that it is no longer a legal priority.
Jim please bring this up to April 1, 2019.
Lots of focus on political struggle, but not much on practical, in-the-snow change.
What has been the change in life expectancy during the past 20 years?
What has been the change in the suicide rate?
What has been the change in people’s health?
What has been the change in smoking?
What has been the change in the housing stock?
What has been the change in homelessness?
What has been the change in high school graduation rates?
What has been the change in university graduation rates?
What has been the change in average income?
What has been the change in poverty?
What has been the change in Inuit food self-sufficiency?
What has been the change in hunger?
What has been the change in Inuit employment?
What has been the change in Inuit business ownership?
What has been the change in Inuit migration out of Nunavut?
What has been the change in incarceration rates?
What has been the change in domestic violence rates?
What has been the change in number of registered vehicles in Nunavut?
What has been the change in number of snow machines?
What has been the change in the number of scientific papers published annually by Inuit researchers?
Why are these improvements not “front and center”?