Tapardjuk drops hints about future

Several hints of announcements and new legislation were made during last week’s sitting of the legislature.

This month Louis Tapardjuk plans to disclose the location of Nunavut’s proposed cultural school, he announced during the leadership review held two weeks ago.

As well, on Tuesday, June 13, Tapardjuk said a draft copy of a new made-in-Nunavut Languages Act would likely be tabled during the winter session of the legislature this November.

The government has been working on the new act with Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated and the Office of the Languages Commissioner.

The government consulted with Inuit organizations this spring. Consultations in all 26 communities are planned for this fall, Tapardjuk said.

The act would give Inuktitut the same status that French and English enjoy in the territory. The existing act, inherited from the Northwest Territories, requires court decisions, bylaws, regulations and legislation to be written only in English and French.