Posted: Feb 26, 2021 4:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 26
Sanikiluaq mayor Johnnie Cookie with his wife Annie. Cookie says the pandemic has shown a further need for the community to be connected to the territory and is calling for two flights a week between his community and Iqaluit. (Submitted by Johnnie Cookie)
The mayor of Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, says his community is tired of having its request for a direct flight to Nunavut ignored by the territorial government.
In a letter to Nunavut s Minister of Economic Development and Transportation, Johnnie Cookie pleaded with the government to do something about it.
Sanikiluaq is on the north part of the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay. There are no commercial flights between the community and the rest of Nunavut.