Nunavut miners hear Inuit businesses face “impossible logistical challenges” – Nunatsiaq News

April 16, 2015

“You’d think the Inuit business community would be thriving”

There’s lots of mining activity going on in Nunavut’s Kitikmeot region — but Charlie Lyall of Taloyoak sees big problems for local and regional Inuit businesses.

“You’d think the Inuit business community would be thriving,” Lyall said in his pithy presentation April 16 to the Nunavut Mining Symposium on the business potential of mining in Nunavut.

Inuit businesses should be thriving, however, money just goes sloshing out of the territory to the South, said Lyall, a former president and CEO of the Kitikmeot Corp., now involved in many joint-venture businesses, including Matrix, which provides a variety of services mining and mineral exploration companies.

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