Elder MLA stages walkout, accuses Nunavut government of ignoring IQ – Nunatsiaq News
March 09, 2015
“The reasoning behind my continued push applies specifically to spousal relations and instances of discord”
Isaac Shooyook, Nunavut’s elder MLA from Quttiktuq, walked out of the legislative chamber during oral question period March 5 to protest what he said is the absence of Inuit traditional knowledge within the Nunavut government’s policies and practices.
Shooyook said that for two days in a row, he asked George Kuksuk, the minister of culture and heritage, about the Government of Nunavut’s use of Inuit traditional knowledge, or Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit.
Shooyook said in past sittings he asked this repeatedly, but never received any satisfactory answers.
