Nunavut premier hears discontent over caribou quotas and meat sales at NTI meeting – Nunatsiaq News
21 October 2020
“We also have to think about our future Inuit … we have to do a balancing act so we can give Nunavummiut what they need and also future Nunavummiut”
Nunavut Premier Joe Savikataaq, who is also the territory’s environment minister, got an earful from regional Inuit leaders about his government’s handling of caribou at the Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. annual general meeting in Cambridge Bay.
“Inuit are used to relying on caribou and we’re used to shooting caribou and just eating them as we need them,” Savikataaq said on Tuesday, Oct. 20.
But with Nunavut’s caribou herds in decline, “we can’t do that anymore if we want them for our future generations. And these are hard decisions,” Savikataaq said.
