Local concerns To distinguish themselves from the crowd, candidates have also come up with ideas for how, as MLA's, they'd try to improve life in Pangnirtung. A new airport to replace the small strip in the centre of town is high on the list of improvements that Alikatuktuk is promoting. He argues that better transportation would lower the cost of living in Pang and, at the same time, would open up more economic development. If the community's airstrip is going to be moved, Alikatuktuk suggests that it might as well be made a lot bigger, too. Maybe it's time to start thinking about a jet.
Air freight costs a lot of money.
Sowdlooapik wants to give hunters better access to the wildlife-rich land around the Cumberland Sound. The ice in the fiord is now slow to freeze up,says Sowdlooapik, but melts increasingly early in the spring, so hunters are having a hard time getting out of the community. He is calling for an overland skidoo trail that would be much more reliable. Voters thinking hard As in many other Nunavut communities, nearly everyone in Pang is related somehow, but voters are not expected to cast their support is solely along family lines. Instead, they're listening carefully to what each candidate has to say.