Some nice temperatures at moment, constant -11 overnight and into this morning. Some light snow but mainly cloudy, nice.

Things are going from the absurd to the ridicules in Ottawa, just when you think things can’t get any more absurd they do.
You have a PC premier dictating to Liberal MP’s how to vote, you have a Liberal leader condemning the Conservative budget yet voting for it. You have NL liberal MP’s first divided on weather to vote with their party or vote for Danny Government, one said he would vote for party unity then voted against his party because the leader gave a one time get of goal free card. Makes the old head spin. I cant even mention the name of the present PM without bile rising in my throat.
Just goes to prove this Canadian form of Westminster parliamentary democracy is not working at all, but we all know that, just nothing gets done about changing it, and it won’t while all the power is with the party’s we have at the moment.

I noticed some hits from Germany; usually don’t take much notice as there are some people from Nain living over there. This morning I decided to check em out, some ‘interesting sites’ come up if one Goggles ‘big ckok’ in German.
Little further down from porno we discover that there is, or was, a radio station in Penticton B.C with the call sign of CKOK.

Speaking of CKOK locally, it is still a pity they have no live streaming or pod cast as yet [have I mentioned that before?] and for some reason no radio brief updates since 27 January. Some good stories not getting to a broader [mandated] audience.
It’s a pity because yesterday they had a very interesting in depth show, interviews and such, on one of the latest NG pieces of legislation to come to light.

There is legislation in place with varying restrictions in it that apply to Non Beneficiaries [NB] who live in and or visit Nunatsiavut and want to harvest, travel, walk on Inuit Lands. That is outside the Inuit Community Government Lands [ICGL].

I do not have the legislation in front of me and I did not take notes yesterday so things are still a little confusing.

CKOK did an interview with Doug Blake of NG [had to correct the name from earlier], who explained various aspects of the legislation, and with Mayors of the towns of Nunatsiavut and the head of the HV-GB Corporation of NG.

The general gist is; if you are a NB who has lived in NG prior to 1980 you have fewer hoops to jump through than if you are a NB living in the area for a shorter time.

The hoops are not all that difficult to jump, all you have to do is go to the local NG conservation officer and get a permit.
Though, if you are one who has not lived in NG for any length of time it does seem to be a little convoluted. You have to fill a form in with the following; what you intend doing i.e. Harvesting, visiting, wooding, boil up etc, when you want to do these things, the area you intend doing these things. With such a large land mass and wabbits not sitting still that will be kind of a hard one to answer.

The interviews with the mayors was interesting, overall there was an expression of concern that NB’s would not feel welcome if the legislation was enforced to the letter. Rigolet, HV-GB and I think Hopedale thought some sort of permit was OK, as long as more thought was put into the wording and enforcement.
Makkovik was dead against any regulations. Nain seemed to have had more discussion on the issue at council level, there were concerns of any possible hint of discrimination and making NB’s feel as though they were not an integral part of the community [paraphrased].

All expressed a desire to find out more at the next meeting of the NG legislator. That is not surprising seeing as NB’s have some rights inside ICGL and non on NG Inuit Lands which is surprising seeing as a large portion of taxes paid by NB’s goes into the coffers of NG.

Seems there is no legislation allowing enforcement at the moment, all the enforcement officer could do to any potential transgressors is tell them they have been naughty and don’t do it again.
I’m sure it will all sort itself out in the wash, meantime confusion reigns, but nothing new there.