Why are RCMP asking for money?

I am appalled at the request of the RCMP, looking for money from the people they robbed when they first stepped foot into the North. How dare they!

They are the ones who killed our dog teams. My dad’s two dog teams were shot because the RCMP and the government officials wanted to start a community.

This happened in all kinds of places in the Nunavut settlement area. There were teams in Kivalliq and other places shot for the same reason. The dog teams were the only means of transportation for families who lived out on the land in what they called outpost camps.

Yes, they, the RCMP, have helped in ways with the law and assisting families where they can, communities, too, but to ask the community members for money to buy Ski-doos is unbelievable, and they would only chase them and stop them from their only means of transportation again.

The RCMP station brings in vehicles from the south – why not get their Ski-doos from the south as well? Have you ever taken a look at the headquarters in Ottawa? Well, there is a lot of wasted space – a lot of equipment not used and stored.

The way I see it, the RCMP still owes a lot of apologies to a lot of Inuit, and maybe they can help the Inuit rebuild the teams they destroyed (for those who are still around), and finally pay more respect to those who have teams now and continue to keep the dogs running.

Mr. RCMP head man, think about what you ask for when there are people like me who do not forget hurt forced and placed on the Inuit by killing their only means of transportation.

(Name withheld by request)
Ottawa