Read Aaju Peter’s perspective on anti-sealing protesters and their campaigns when she went to Europe with her son Aggu and former CSA president Jim Winter in 2007 to promote Canadian and Innuit
Aaju Peter and Jim Winter confronting protestors at the Hague in front of the Canadian embassy prior to making a presentation to the Dutch Parliament
sealing rights arriving on the doorstep of Canada’s embassy in Holland, which was seeing daily anti-sealing protesters in front of the embassy, and also to speak to the Dutch government. Aaju was adamant in taking her message to the likes of Greenpeace and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) face on. She felt strongly these propaganda campaigns were having negative economic and social impacts on communities back home.
Read more of the great article “Angry Innuk” from 2020, published by Adventure Canada here