QIA’s 22 reasons

IQALUIT — QIA’s acting executive director promises that Nunavummiut will soon know 22 reasons why suspended association president Meeka Kilabuk should resign.

“Everybody, including the media, will have list of the 22 reasons after it’s been translated into Inuktitut,” John MacDougall said in a telephone interview Tuesday. “That should be late next week.”

Lawyers representing QIA faxed the list to Kilabuk’s lawyer, Russell Zinn, on Aug. 17 after Kilabuk refused to resign as president on Aug. 8.

According to MacDougall, Kilabuk’s lawyer wanted specific reasons why his client should resign, so QIA met his demands.

And contrary to previous news reports, MacDougall said, most of the reasons listed in the letter were given by QIA employees — not members of QIA’s board of directors.

According to MacDougall, QIA’s board mandated QIA employees to make the list during the week of Aug. 13.

MacDougall said it took QIA employees five days to compile the list because they had to ensure it complied with the association’s existing code of conduct, policies and bylaws.

The board is scheduled to meet with Kilabuk on Sept. 19 in Iqaluit.

Calls from Nunatsiaq News to Kilabuk’s lawyer weren’t returned by press-time.