Justice Deborah Gass ruled last month that it was not in the best interests of Ina Ishulutak, 60, to be moved from Iqaluit to Calgary
A Nunavut judge has barred territorial officials from sending an Iqaluit woman who needs around-the-clock care to a home in Calgary, saying the cycle of sending Inuit to facilities thousands of kilometres from their families and culture, “does need to be broken.”
A shortage of long-term care facilities – and housing in general – has led the Nunavut government to regularly send Inuit elders and others who require supportive care to facilities in the south, a practice opponents say harks back to the days of residential schooling and tuberculosis treatment far from Inuit lands.
Ms. Kunuk, along with Ms. Ishulutak’s other siblings, challenged the plan to send their sister to Calgary not long after their mother, Sheba, died in May. Until then, Ms. Ishulutak, who has schizophrenia that is controlled by medication, lived with her mother in Iqaluit. Regardless, the OPGT was in charge of Ms. Ishulutak’s affairs when she wound up staying at Akausisarvik, an Iqaluit mental-health facility. That came to pass because Ms. Ishulutak was, according to an OPGT memorandum to the court, left alone and uncared for while Elisapee and other members of the family accompanied a gravely ill Sheba to hospital in Ottawa, where she later died.
They turned to the OPGT, which inquired about a bed in one of Nunavut’s long-term care facilities, all of which were full. Calgary was the only option, short of leaving Ms. Ishulutak homeless, the OPGT said in court documents.
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