I am completely baffled by the compensation. Thirty-six more Inuit are moved from Inukjuak.
Government rejects it.
Some of the exiles, a name they gave given themselves, are vowing to continue their fight for an apology from the government despite the agreement. And Gordon Robertson, a former Clerk of the Privy Council who was deputy minister of the department that masterminded the moves, says he is baffled by the compensation package being given to the Inuit. Eighty-six Inuit were relocated in 1953 and 1955 from Inukjuak in northern Quebec over a distance of 2,000 kilometres to Resolute Bay and Craig Harbour in the High Arctic. The 17 Inuit families, who were split up on the icebreaker into the two communities, say they were dumped on the shore of the communities without housing and were forced to scrounge for food at the military base while adjusting to dark winters. They also say the government broke its promise to return them to Quebec on request while they adjusted to the dark winters of the Arctic.