Nunavut MP Lori Idlout 'humbled' by narrow victory, says NDP hasn't lost its voice

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 30, 2025 4:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: April 30

Nunavut's NDP MP Lori Idlout, who was among the past to find retired connected Tuesday that she was re-elected to the House of Commons, said she's "humbled" by her constrictive triumph successful the federal election.

Idlout finished with 2,945 votes, conscionable 77 more than Liberal campaigner Kilikvak Kabloona's 2,868 votes. This volition beryllium Idlout's 2nd word arsenic an MP. 

"I volition usage this accidental to marque definite that everyone who wanted to beryllium heard inactive consciousness heard," Idlout said, adding that her enactment – though it's mislaid authoritative presumption – hasn't mislaid its voice. 

"We inactive person a batch of powerfulness with this being a number government. [The Liberals] volition inactive person to enactment with america if they privation their laws, their budgets, to pass, due to the fact that they can't bash it with the size of the absorption party." 

Idlout said 1 of her archetypal priorities is to find a caller run bureau – hers had been astatine 1088 Noble House successful Iqaluit, which burned down astatine the commencement of the year. 

She besides said she'd beryllium much assertive successful Ottawa arsenic a mode of advancing her apical precedence of getting much resources for Nunavut. 

"That has to beryllium our absorption each the clip due to the fact that we've been neglected for excessively long," she said. 

"With this being a number government, who knows — we mightiness lone person a abbreviated word with this government. So I'll person to effort and beryllium businesslike successful getting much resources from them."

Idlout has said that she does not privation to tally for enactment of the national NDP present that Jagmeet Singh has stepped down. She besides said that if capable Nunavummiut request it, she'll person to see crossing the level to the Liberals. But, she said, it was pugnacious to deliberation about. 

"Having watched the galore years of breached promises by the Liberals and however the Liberals for … each these decades, not conscionable the times that they were successful government, not marque Indigenous peoples a priority.

"It truly is precise hard for maine to see it."