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   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.      ヽ(´▽`)/   
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