Bouquets

To former Secretary of State for External Affairs Joe Clark for his leadership in committing the federal government to the creation of a council of arctic states...

To Ambassador Derek Burney and the staff of the Canadian Embassy in Washington for their efforts to kill U.S. legislation that would have permitted oil exploration and development on the Alaska North Slope...

To the N.W.T.'s Dennis Patterson, for his candour and openness during two terms as Government Leader...

To George Hobson, winner of the 1991 Northern Science Award and a tireless supporter of excellence in Canadian polar research as leader of the Polar Shelf project...

To the leaders and staff of the Tungavik Federation of Nunavat, for accomplishing what many thought was a pipedream, and negotiating a final agreement on the Inuit land claim in the Eastern Arctic...

To former U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev, for helping usher in a new era of co-operation in arctic relations...

To the Government of Finland, which along with Canada and the other circumpolar states, initiated a process for environmental protection and monitoring in the Arctic...

 ...and Brickbats

To Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Tom Siddon, for refusing to acknowledge the responsibility of the Government of Canada in relocating Inuit families from northern Quebec to the High Arctic in the l950s...

To N.W.T. Minister of Public Works Don Morin, for promoting a territorial cabinet based on racial lines rather than political qualifications...

To Alaska Governor Wally Hickel, for continuing to press for oil drilling in ANWR and promoting plans for a pipeline and rail network across rural Alaska...