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Nunavut incumbents return in 2004

Broadcast Date: Feb. 16, 2004

In 2004, Canada's newest territory goes to the polls for the second time, choosing 19 members to represent 27,000 residents spread out over a vast area. As the results come in on Nunavut's election night, it looks like the new assembly will closely resemble the old one. From Iqaluit, host Jennifer Tilden brings CBC Newsworld viewers in the South up to date. Reporter Vinnie Karetak, speaking in Inuktitut (with English subtitles), gives a concise background on the land, the people and the political process in Nunavut.

Nunavut incumbents return in 2004

• Voters in Iqaluit, the territory's largest community, faced a blizzard on election day. Nevertheless, overall turnout in the 2004 election was 93.7 per cent - much higher than in the rest of Canada.

• Three weeks after the election, the members of Nunavut's legislative assembly gathered to choose the premier. Their choices were Paul Okalik, who had held the post since the territory's creation in 1999, and Tagak Curley, a newcomer who accused Okalik of neglecting the Inuit culture and language.

• Curley took particular issue with Okalik's support of Nunavut's human rights act, which included protection for lesbians and gays. An evangelical Christian, Curley said the provision was contrary to traditional Inuit values.

• Okalik won again as premier in a secret ballot. According to the Canadian Press, some of the issues he was expected to face included Nunavut's high suicide rate and substance abuse problem, as well as chronic housing shortages. Okalik pledged that he would devote his second term to wresting more control of Nunavut's resources from the federal government.

Nunavut incumbents return in 2004

Medium: Television

Program: CBC Television News Special

Broadcast Date: Feb. 16, 2004

Guest(s): Paul Irngaut, Peter Irniq, Paul Quassa

Host: Jennifer Tilden, Rassi Nashalik
Reporter: Vinnie Karetak

Duration: 6:57

Last updated:
Oct. 2, 2008

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