Some federal politicians aren’t as optomistic about Daryl Kramp’s private member’s bill to amend the name of a sea route through the Arctic Ocean as the local M-P is.
Kramp told our newsroom yesterday his proposal to add Canadian to the Northwest Passage went through second reading on Wednesday, and would go on to committee debate.
However, Yukon Liberal M-P Larry Bagnell called Kramp’s agreement to amend his original proposal to include an Inuktitut name in conjunction with new uses of Canadian Northwest Passage an afterthought that doesn’t undo the damage of not consulting Inuit..
Other Liberals, originally in favour of the new name, also pulled their support after Nunavut’s main land-claim agency proposed using the Inuktitut term for the waterway.
