Witness says Nunavut government deleted budget from its suicide plan – Nunatsiaq News
September 16, 2015
“We had an implementation plan without a budget,” Jack Hicks says
A recent evaluation of Nunavut’s suicide prevention action plan shows the Government of Nunavut’s “uneven participation” in the group that created it and properly questions the GN’s leadership in implementing it.
That’s according to Jack Hicks, a suicide statistician who testified Sept. 16 at the coroner’s inquest into Nunavut’s high suicide rates at the Nunavut Court of Justice in Iqaluit.
An evaluation of the plan was submitted as evidence on Sept. 15, the second day of the inquest.
“The problem is not the strategy, the problem is the implementation of that strategy,” Hicks told the inquest’s six-person jury.
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