🇨🇦 Canada 5d ago · Miriam Lafontaine

John Amagoalik launches lawsuit, says he won’t return to Embassy West

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John Amagoalik launches lawsuit, says he won’t return to Embassy West
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John Amagoalik has filed an application for judicial review at the Nunavut Court of Justice in response to the territorial government’s refusal to fund his medical care and housing. 
Steve Kelliher, his lawyer and longtime friend, said the Government of Nunavut has betrayed not only Amagoalik but also his dream of Inuit self-determination. 
“The colonial control from above is gone, and in its place is a form of a recolonization from below,” Kelliher said. “By that I mean the emergence of a

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