NUNAVUT - The new name of the Northwest Passage will include an Inuktitut name after an amendment to a private member's proposal passed in the House of Commons on Dec. 2.

The motion to rename the waterway the Canadian Northwest Passage was originally put forward by Daryl Kramp, MP for Prince-Edward Hastings in Ontario in October. He then put forward an amendment to the motion on Nov. 25 to include the Inuktitut name, Tallurutik.

During an interview with News/North on Dec. 4, president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. Paul Kaludjak said he had not heard that an amendment to include an Inuktitut name had been passed.

Kaludjak said Inuit should have been consulted from the beginning of the renaming process.

"We did tell them that this was an oversight on their part," he said. "When somebody is going to submit a motion like that, that's like spur of the moment, it doesn't give consideration to Inuit that live up here."