Leona Aglukkaq

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Leona Aglukkaq (born June 28, 1967 in Inuvik , Northwest Territories ) is a Canadian politician. Since the Canadian general election in 2008 she has been a member of the Canadian Conservative Party in the Canadian federal parliament for the constituency of Nunavut . Leona Aglukkaq became Minister of Health in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Cabinet on October 30, 2008 . From July 2013 to October 2015, it was under the Canadian Ministry of the Environment . She was the first Inuk in Canadian history to hold a ministerial office.

Leona Aglukkaq grew up in Thom Bay, Taloyoak and the Gjoa Haven community . In Iqaluit , she attended Nunavut Arctic College. Her political career began in 1989 in the local government of Gjoa Haven. In 2004 she was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut for the constituency of Nattilik . Aglukkaq was Minister of Finance and Health in the Nunavut Territory Government. On September 10, 2008, she gave up her seat in the territorial parliament to run for the federal parliament.

Minister of Health

On May 6, 2009, Leona Aglukkaq announced that Canadian scientists at the National Laboratory for Microbiology in Winnipeg had succeeded in deciphering the genetic makeup of the 2009 influenza pandemic , a newly reassorted H1N1 influenza A virus .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Canada Votes 2008: Electoral results for Nunavut ( Memento of November 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) CBC / Radio-Canada (October 14, 2008)
  2. ↑ Harper shuffles cabinet to create 'right team for these times' ( Memento from September 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) CBC / Radio-Canada (October 30, 2008)
  3. ^ The Honorable Leona Aglukkaq. Government of Canada, July 16, 2013, archived from the original on August 23, 2013 ; accessed on April 14, 2014 (English).
  4. ^ Aglukkaq is first Inuit cabinet minister ( Memento December 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Canadian Press (October 30, 2008)
  5. ↑ dpa (May 8, 2009) Researchers decipher the genome of A / H1N1 ( Memento from May 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Stuttgarter Nachrichten
personal data
SURNAME Aglukkaq, Leona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian Inuit politician (Conservative Party of Canada), Minister of Health
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Inuvik