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Arctic Council leadership

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Nunavut MP and Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq will chair the Arctic Council when Canada holds the position for two years starting in January. (The Canadian Press)

Canada assumes leadership of the Arctic Council in January 2013.

Leona Aglukkaq, Canada’s Member of Parliament for Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut will chair the Arctic Council.

Aglukkaq is also Minister of Health and Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency.

Last week she travelled to Canada’s three northern territorial capitals for round-table discussions on what Canada’s priorities should be during its two-year chairmanship of the organization.

However, controversy errupted this week after Western Arctic MP Dennis Bevington said in an interview that Canada’s foreign affairs minister should be appointed to head the Arctic Council instead of Aglukkaq.

Aglukkaq is Inuk and grew up in Nunavut.

To read her response, click here.

Write to Eilís Quinn at eilis.quinn(at)cbc.ca

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic

Eilís Quinn is an award-winning journalist and manages Radio Canada International’s Eye on the Arctic news cooperation project. Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight circumpolar countries and has produced numerous documentary and multimedia series about climate change and the issues facing Indigenous peoples in the North.

Her investigative report "Death in the Arctic: A community grieves, a father fights for change," about the murder of Robert Adams, a 19-year-old Inuk man from Arctic Quebec, received the silver medal for “Best Investigative Article or Series” at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The project also received an honourable mention for excellence in reporting on trauma at the 2019 Dart Awards in New York City.

Her report “The Arctic Railway: Building a future or destroying a culture?” on the impact a multi-billion euro infrastructure project would have on Indigenous communities in Arctic Europe was a finalist at the 2019 Canadian Association of Journalists award in the online investigative category.

Her multimedia project on the health challenges in the Canadian Arctic, "Bridging the Divide," was a finalist at the 2012 Webby Awards.

Her work on climate change in the Arctic has also been featured on the TV science program Découverte, as well as Le Téléjournal, the French-Language CBC’s flagship news cast.

Eilís has worked for media organizations in Canada and the United States and as a TV host for the Discovery/BBC Worldwide series "Best in China."

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