Why not get an import permit?

I would like to say that it’s a good thing the authorities Duncan Cunningham speaks of are stopping the shipping of non-permitted booze into Nunavut communities where you need a special liquor permit to import alcohol.

For those of you who don’t know, in most Nunavut communities, you need a permit to import alcohol to them. So what Duncan Cunningham was doing is illegal.

These communities are dry because the people of these communities have voted to keep them, which is their right to do.

And last, I was appalled that Duncan called the liquor inspectors racist (“It’s not about the liquor inspectors, many new to the North, who sit in licensed establishments gawking at Inuit women waiting to write them up for that little-too-loud laugh, nor is it about waiters cutting off the Inuk man after two beers while ignoring the white man’s revelry,” his letter said.)

Liquor inspectors do not write up the individual who is intoxicated — they write the establishment up. That means it doesn’t matter what gender or race the individual is, it is the state of intoxication in the licensed establishment.

Let’s tell everyone how I was breaking the law for the last five years, and getting away with it, while everyone else in my community had to apply for a special permit to import liquor. Does this seem smart to you?

Why not get an import permit?

(Name withheld by request)
Iqaluit