But we accept them because we know that the police and other law enforcement agencies must sometimes enter citizens' homes to look for stolen goods, illegal drugs, and other evidence of serious crime. When wildlife officers used a search warrant to invade Craig Clark's home and to violate his privacy and his liberty, the letter of the law was on their side. Thanks to the Nunavut land claim, a bewildering variety of bureaucracies now wield authority over wildlife, land, water and other such matters. Their purpose is to ensure that Inuit have an equal say with governments in the conservation of wildlife, and that Nunavut's environment receives the protection it deserves. Those who negotiated the Nunavut land claim agreement and those who conceived of all the little bureaucracies created by that agreement could not, however, incorporate the idiot factor into their thinking.
Nobody can protect themselves against the idiot factor.
Just ask Craig Clark. Nunavut's health boards must go Nunavut's regional health boards are an idea whose time has passed. At its earliest opportunity, the Nunavut government should abolish them, and place Nunavut's health care system under the direct control of Nunavut's Department of Health and Social Services. At the same time, employees of Nunavut's three health boards should be absorbed into the health department, and if necessary, reassigned where their skills are most needed. Each of the former health boards would then operate under the direction of a regional superintendent of health and social services, who would report directly to Nunavut's deputy minister of health and social services.