Thanks for this Clare. It took a superhuman effort for me to refrain from blogging about it as I am certain that as a GN employee I could have potentially gotten myself into a world of unpleasantness.
which is the saddest part: the comments by the former premier or the feeding frenzy by the current MLAs (and others) for PO’s blood. Me thinks they both show extremely bad taste and possibly poor judgement.
No problem Darcy
No kidding allmycke
What feeding frenzy Indigo? We have an MLA saying “We have all been elected to this Legislative Assembly to be leaders and role models for such values as compassion, tolerance, respect and wisdom.I will be frank: any one of us who has a different agenda should simply do the honourable thing – resign and let the rest of us do the job that our constituents sent us here to do,” We have another saying that those remarks don’t reflect the values that other MLA’s and others in Iqaluit have. And we have the assembly chastising clearly inappropriate remarks.
I have no ax to grind with the former Premier, what saddens me is that he doesn’t seem to be the man I thought he was. My comment that it is time to move on to the private sector stems from the fact that between this, and other incidents such as his refusal to let his name stand for cabinet, something he could clearly have contributed to, that he appears to not care about governence, but more about him being the rightful leader of Nunavut. Am I calling for his blood, not really, I want him to get on with the job of governing or get out.
indigo
Okay then.
I share your disappointment with the former premier’s recent public performance. I too wish he would make a firm decision to stay or go. Reading NN and NNN on line I see no mention that someone nominated him for, and he was chosen as one of the recipients of, the 2009 National Aboriginal Achievement Awards. I thought he was very subdued in his remarks on that occasion.
What I think about (from afar and when I am in Nunavut) is who elected him for two terms, who choose him premier twice and who allowed his “style” to go, while allegedly remarked on in hushed terms, unabated?
That’s what I meant by feeding frenzy, not you personally.
Admittedly I”m not a politcal animal, and don’t follow it that closely, but I for one had never known about this particular aspect of his “style” before. It wasn’t, until the end of the last election, that I thought negatively about him at all.
I will note that despite his criticisms of non-Inuit in cabinet, that he always had some in his cabinet as well. And while he didn’t chose who would be in cabinet he did get to choose portfolios, and they were often placed in high profile ministries with huge impacts on Inuit, such as Health and Education. I also note that despite his criticisms of Ron Elliot, that Ron is doing an excellent job so far, and captured 51% of the vote. And although that is only 9 votes in margin it was against an incumbent, who was in cabinet, and relatively well liked in the community. That speaks to some sort of mandate for change.
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Thanks for this Clare. It took a superhuman effort for me to refrain from blogging about it as I am certain that as a GN employee I could have potentially gotten myself into a world of unpleasantness.
Holy smoke!
which is the saddest part: the comments by the former premier or the feeding frenzy by the current MLAs (and others) for PO’s blood. Me thinks they both show extremely bad taste and possibly poor judgement.
No problem Darcy
No kidding allmycke
What feeding frenzy Indigo? We have an MLA saying “We have all been elected to this Legislative Assembly to be leaders and role models for such values as compassion, tolerance, respect and wisdom.I will be frank: any one of us who has a different agenda should simply do the honourable thing – resign and let the rest of us do the job that our constituents sent us here to do,” We have another saying that those remarks don’t reflect the values that other MLA’s and others in Iqaluit have. And we have the assembly chastising clearly inappropriate remarks.
I have no ax to grind with the former Premier, what saddens me is that he doesn’t seem to be the man I thought he was. My comment that it is time to move on to the private sector stems from the fact that between this, and other incidents such as his refusal to let his name stand for cabinet, something he could clearly have contributed to, that he appears to not care about governence, but more about him being the rightful leader of Nunavut. Am I calling for his blood, not really, I want him to get on with the job of governing or get out.
Okay then.
I share your disappointment with the former premier’s recent public performance. I too wish he would make a firm decision to stay or go. Reading NN and NNN on line I see no mention that someone nominated him for, and he was chosen as one of the recipients of, the 2009 National Aboriginal Achievement Awards. I thought he was very subdued in his remarks on that occasion.
What I think about (from afar and when I am in Nunavut) is who elected him for two terms, who choose him premier twice and who allowed his “style” to go, while allegedly remarked on in hushed terms, unabated?
That’s what I meant by feeding frenzy, not you personally.
Admittedly I”m not a politcal animal, and don’t follow it that closely, but I for one had never known about this particular aspect of his “style” before. It wasn’t, until the end of the last election, that I thought negatively about him at all.
I will note that despite his criticisms of non-Inuit in cabinet, that he always had some in his cabinet as well. And while he didn’t chose who would be in cabinet he did get to choose portfolios, and they were often placed in high profile ministries with huge impacts on Inuit, such as Health and Education. I also note that despite his criticisms of Ron Elliot, that Ron is doing an excellent job so far, and captured 51% of the vote. And although that is only 9 votes in margin it was against an incumbent, who was in cabinet, and relatively well liked in the community. That speaks to some sort of mandate for change.