Nunavut senator dumps on land use plan, Trudeau government – NunatsiaqOnline
April 05, 2017
“I have fought my entire political life to end this kind of patronizing and colonial Ottawa-knows-best decision”
Proposals to protect big swaths of Nunavut land through the Nunavut Planning Commission’s draft Nunavut Land Use Plan won’t help the economy, people or caribou, Conservative Nunavut Senator Dennis Patterson said April 4 at the Nunavut Mining Symposium in Iqaluit.
And, what’s more, the federal government has undermined devolution by imposing a moratorium on offshore Arctic gas and oil drilling, Patterson said.
Patterson was one of several speakers at the symposium who complained about the protected areas proposed in the NPC’s draft plan.
