Sitting at her dining room table in Inukjuak, Siasi Smiler Irqumia gets straight to the point.
“Things don’t really happen, even if we vote.”
“We are just another community in Quebec,” says the Inuk elder — deserving of attention.
“But when I look at the Inuit people, Cree people, Naskapi, we are very much avoided. Our communities are avoided.”
There’s anger in Inukjuak, one of the villages in Quebec’s Nunavik region, and disappointment, ahead of the provincial election on Oct. 3. Why pay attention to it, they ask, especially when history proves residents’ needs won’t be met?
It’s a common refrain among those in the Inuit
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