Members to vote on removing premier

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Members of the Nunavut legislature are to vote Thursday on whether to remove the premier. Paul Quassa, a longtime Inuit leader, was chosen for the office last fall by his political colleagues under the territory’s consensus government.

But one of them has announced he will table a motion for a vote that could force Quassa’s resignation.

John Main, who represents the Hudson Bay community of Arviat, did not give a reason for introducing the motion.