Joe Enook (1957 – March 29, 2019) was a
Canadian
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politician who was elected to represent the district of
Tununiq in the
Legislative Assembly of Nunavut
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Prior to the creation of Nunavut as a Canadian territory on Apr ...
in a
by-election
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on September 12, 2011.
["Enook, Ell, Oshutapik win Nunavut byelections"]
CBC News
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, September 12, 2011. He was re-elected in 2013 and 2017. In 2017, he was acclaimed as
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, the office he held until his death in March 2019.
During his tenure as a Member of the Legislative Assembly and as its Speaker, he rarely addressed the legislature in
English
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, as he preferred to promote the use of
Inuktitut
Inuktitut (; , syllabics ; from , "person" + , "like", "in the manner of"), also Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, is one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada. It is spoken in all areas north of the tree line, including parts of the provinces o ...
.
Enook was born in 1957 near
Pond Inlet
Pond Inlet ( iu, Mittimatalik, lit=the place where Mittima is buried) is a small, predominantly Inuit community in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, located on northern Baffin Island. To the Inuit the name of the place "is and always ...
.
He died in office in 2019 after a short illness at the age of 61.
References
External links
*. Biography at the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut
Inuit from Nunavut
Inuit politicians
People from Pond Inlet
21st-century Canadian politicians
Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut
1957 births
2019 deaths
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