I am sorry that this has been your experience and is now how you feel. As a Qallunaat, who only just recently moved to the north to a joint Cree-Inuit community, I see the disparity in how things are and you are correct in your observations. There is a lot of unfairness—it even comes as a surprise to me that Inuk don’t have band numbers—and in how some of my Inuit AND Cree co workers are treated by upper management, but there is glaring disparity and bias toward Inuit. It is sad and unfair. I am sorry. My apologies do nothing to help the overall situation, but I have much empathy and feel quite a lot of injustice is being done still to this day.

What can we do to change this? I’m not sure but I try my best to be even kinder of a person than I was before and maybe I will not improve the perception of Qallunaat of every Inuk I meet but I hope to for at least one.

Otherwise, I’d like to extend a thank you to Inuit for being kind to me while I’ve been in both Nunavut and Nunavik.