Titus Allooloo (born 1953,

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 ...

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(now

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)) is a business man and former territorial level politician from Nunavut,

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. He served as a member and cabinet Minister of the

Legislature through two terms from 1987 until 1995.

Politics

Allooloo was elected to his first term in the

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, running as a candidate in the

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. He won the

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electoral district. He was re-elected to his second term in the

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defeating future

MLA

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. He became a cabinet minister serving as Minister of Culture and Communications, Transportation, Education, Renewable Resources, Municipal and Community Affairs, and Associate Minister of Aboriginal Rights and Constitutional Development. While serving as Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, Allooloo became subject to controversy, after he replaced the

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town council with a Municipal Administrator. He was also accused of lying about his Ministerial travel to the Assembly during question period by Premier

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. He resigned his portfolio on November 22, 1994. Despite being forced to resign his portfolio he ran for re-election in the

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but was defeated by candidate

Mark Evaloarjuk Mark Evaloarjuk, CM (né Evaluarjuk; 1937 – July 3, 2002) was a northern Canadian business pioneer and politician from Igloolik, Nunavut. He served as a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1975 until 1983, and served as Presid ...

Recent activities

After his defeat from the Legislature, Allooloo continued working towards the creation of the

territory. Allooloo toured the territories to vigorously campaign for Iqaluit, to be elected capital city in the

1995 Nunavut capital plebiscite A plebiscite on a capital city was held on 11 December 1995 in the area of the Northwest Territories that was to be split off into the new territory of Nunavut. Voters were given the options of either Iqaluit or Rankin Inlet. Iqaluit was chosen b ...

. He later served as a member of the Nunavut Electoral Boundary Commission to draw the first electoral boundaries for the territory. On November 12, 2004 he was appointed to a special Board of Investigation by Correctional Services Canada. The board was commissioned to investigate the circumstances revolving around the release and supervision of Eli Ulayuk, a parolee who would murder a Parole officer in Yellowknife.

Tourism

Allooloo became part owner of a tourism company Narwhal Adventure Training and Tours in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Allooloo, Titus Living people Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories People from Pond Inlet Inuit from the Northwest Territories 1953 births Inuit from Nunavut