Makivik Magazine Issue 65
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as one of the 50 best-managed companies in Canada.<br />
<strong>Makivik</strong> also went on to create Nunavik Arctic Foods, Halutik<br />
Enterprises and, most recently, Nunavik Creations. We also work<br />
in close collaboration with other partners through joint ventures,<br />
such as Nunavut Eastern Arctic Shipping, Unaaq Fisheries and<br />
Pan Arctic Inuit Logistics. When our ventures did not meet our<br />
expectations or provide sufficient employment opportunities, we<br />
learned our lessons, and <strong>Makivik</strong> reoriented its objectives to create<br />
profit-making businesses.<br />
When I look around Nunavik communities and see our subsidiary<br />
companies as well as the facilities and infrastructures<br />
that were made possible through <strong>Makivik</strong> funding, I fully appreciate<br />
the work undertaken by the NQIA leaders and the past and<br />
present executives, boards and employees of <strong>Makivik</strong>. The creation<br />
of the community of Umiujaq, the construction of new social<br />
housing and of the marine infrastructures, the sewing centres,<br />
the FM radio stations, Air Inuit, First Air, the recreation facilities<br />
and arenas, and the airports are all examples of what Inuit have<br />
achieved by effectively speaking up for our rights and interests<br />
and maintaining constant pressure on governments to properly<br />
implement the JBNQA. I believe that <strong>Makivik</strong> has succeeded in<br />
the careful and wise investment of the compensation provided<br />
under the JBNQA.<br />
<strong>Makivik</strong> is the successor to the NQIA, which was responsible<br />
for negotiating the creation of the Kativik School Board,<br />
the Kativik Regional Government, the municipal corporation,<br />
the Landholding Corporation and the Board of health and social<br />
services. Provisions of the JBNQA also ensured that our environment<br />
would benefit from special protection. Today, we can fully<br />
appreciate the legacy it has left us.<br />
Implementing the JBNQA has been a challenge. Our main<br />
advice to indigenous organizations negotiating land claims agreements<br />
is to ensure that an implementation mechanism, a specific<br />
funding arrangement and time frames are negotiated alongside<br />
the land claims agreement. In 1989, we signed the James Bay<br />
and Northern Quebec Implementation Agreement with the federal<br />
government. We have spent much time, funds and effort ensuring<br />
that the various provisions of the JBNQA are respected.<br />
The challenges still exist. Our region lacks the necessary<br />
employment possibilities and economic independence that will<br />
ensure that our youth will have a financially secure future. This<br />
is, in my opinion, the most challenging and crucial of <strong>Makivik</strong>’s<br />
responsibilities.<br />
As a younger leader, I thank our past Inuit leaders, as well as<br />
the people behind the scenes at <strong>Makivik</strong>, for the work they have<br />
done in the spirit of improving Nunavik living conditions and in providing<br />
a contemporary way for Inuit to adapt to the modern world.<br />
Happy Birthday <strong>Makivik</strong>.<br />
MAKIVIK magazine<br />
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