From: grmerrick@shaw.ca   
      
   On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:13:54 -0800, "(?_?) "  wrote:   
      
   >He used her in the seal-ban by the European Union - and she, in turn, used   
   >natives and metis to infer they would all starve if they weren't allowed to   
   >kill seals.  For export of pelts.   
   >   
   >Here she is again . . . . trying to shut up her own people on an issue that   
   >might embarrass the Harper Cons going into an election year.  Some flunkies   
   >work better than others, eh, Harper?   
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   >   
   >APTN National News | 28. Nov, 2014   
   >   
   >Aglukkaq tried forcing apology from Nunavut hamlet over dump food scavenging   
   >revelations, claims deputy mayor   
   >   
   >   
   >Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq tried to force an apology from a Nunavut   
   >hamlet over statements made by its deputy mayor who said high grocery prices   
   in   
   >the community forces dozens of residents to scavenge the local dump for food.   
   >   
   >Sam Tutanuak, deputy mayor of Rankin Inlet, said Aglukkaq’s office called the   
   >hamlet’s senior administrative officer Wednesday asking for a letter of   
   apology   
   >addressed to the minister and the Conservative party.   
   >   
   >“She wanted to talk to the mayor of Rankin in regards to the comments I had   
   >made and that the hamlet of Rankin Inlet should write an apology letter to   
   >Leona Aglukkaq and the Conservative party that the Nutrition North program is   
   >working,” said Tutanuak, in an interview Thursday evening.   
   >   
   >Aglukkaq is the MP for Nunavut.   
   >   
   >Tutanuak said no apology is forthcoming.   
   >   
   >“I am not apologizing,” he said, in an earlier interview with Nation to Nation   
   >host Nigel Newlove. “We have elderly people picking up food from the dump to   
   >eat. How can I apologize for something like that?’   
   >   
   >Aglukkaq’s office did not return APTN National News’ request for comment on   
   the   
   >claim she tried extracting an apology from the hamlet.   
   >   
   >Tutanuak’s initial statements about Rankin Inlet residents foraging in the   
   dump   
   >for food first aired on APTN Investigates last Friday.   
   >   
   >The Auditor General of Canada delivered a report Tuesday containing a scathing   
   >review of the Harper government’s new Nutrition North food subsidy program for   
   >remote Northern communities.   Auditor General Michael Ferguson’s report said   
   >the federal Aboriginal Affairs department had no way to determine whether the   
   >program was making food affordable or improving Northern residents’ access to   
   >healthy foods like vegetables.   
   >   
   >On Wednesday, NDP Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair led Question Period on the   
   >subject of Nutrition North and referred to the APTN story.  He asked Prime   
   >Minister Stephen Harper whether he felt “shame” that people in the North were   
   >getting food at the dump.   
   >   
   >Harper sidestepped the question, but Aglukkaq, who sits on the front   
   government   
   >bench, began heckling, according to five opposition MPs interviewed by APTN.   
   >   
   >All five MPs, three NDP and two Liberals, said Aglukkaq yelled “that’s not   
   >true” when Mulcair mentioned the dump.   
   >   
   >“The minister clearly said, over and over again, when anyone mentioned the   
   >question of people eating out of garbage dumps, that it wasn’t true,” said NDP   
   >MP Carol Hughes.   
   >   
   >“When our leader (Mulcair) asked about the situation in the far North, Leona   
   >was shouting and heckling him,” said NDP MP Charlie Angus. “When the issue   
   came   
   >up of people trying to find food at the dump, she said, ‘that’s not true.’”   
   >   
   >Liberal MP Judy Sgro said Aglukkaq repeated the words three or four times.   
   >   
   >“The minister hollered out ‘that’s not true,’ to the first NDP question, the   
   >second NDP question, and the third NDP question,” said Sgro. “She said ‘that’s   
   >not true,’ very clearly, those three words.”   
   >   
   >Aglukkaq’s spokesperson Ted Laking said Aglukkaq never said those words during   
   >Question Period.   
   >   
   >“It is false,” said Laking, in an email.   
   >   
   >“She denies that she says it, but she said it over and over again,” said   
   >Hughes.  “She is in denial that it’s happening, but it’s clearly happening and   
   >she clearly said it.”   
   >   
   >Tutanuak said Thursday that between 50 to 100 people in Rankin Inlet regularly   
   >go to the dump looking for food.   
   >   
   >“Yeah, you see it. Unfortunately, it’s a common sight,” said Tutanuak.   
   >   
   >When asked what he thought when he found out Aglukkaq wanted an apology,   
   >Tutanuak said his reaction was not fit for publication.      ?(´?`)/   
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   She is our minister of environment for gods sake. Minister of   
   Environment and her constituents have to go to the dump and dig   
   through the shit to find food. Should I write to her and tell her that   
   I want her office to investigate the star fish die off on the west   
   coast? DFO scientists are muzzled.   
      
   The worst possible thing happened when psychopath Harper became PM of   
   Canada. Aglukkaq is less than a parrot. She is completely unfit to be   
   minister of environment and Harper is the worst thing that has ever   
   happened to our very young country.   
      
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