Karetak-Lindell named Nunavut’s new senator – Nunatsiaq News

Dec 19, 2024

Former MP for Nunavut is also a member of the Order of Canada

Nancy Karetak-Lindell is Nunavut’s new senator, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday in a news release.

Karetak-Lindell is a former Nunavut MP who was elected in 1997 and played an important role in negotiations that led to the establishment of Nunavut as a territory in 1999.

As a Liberal MP, she represented Nunavut for more than a decade. Karetak-Lindell also previously served as a councillor in Arviat and in 2023 she was named to the Order of Canada.

The territory’s lone seat in the Senate has been vacant since the retirement of Dennis Patterson last December.

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