In 2020, Quebec awarded $152 million in compensation to victims of violence, aimed at helping them deal with the aftermath of their trauma. Documents filed with the Superior Court of Quebec show, however, that of the 7,401 beneficiaries of the program, only nine were residents of Nunavik.

The alleged inequity affecting Quebec's most northerly region, the vast majority of whose residents are Inuit, is the subject of a recent application to authorize the filing of a class-action lawsuit, according to CBC Canada.

Using official statistics, the lawyers behind the application concluded that victims of criminal acts in Nunavik are approximately 40 times less likely to receive compensation than their counterparts living elsewhere in Quebec.

According to data compiled by the Nunavik police, some 5,000 in-person crimes are committed every year in the region, which has a population of about 12,000.