Silas Arngna'naaq is a Canadian politician from Baker Lake,Nunavut Votes 2004 Arviat Profile
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. He was a member of the

Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly, or Legislative Council of the Northwest Territories (with Northwest hyphenated as North-West until 1906), is the legislature and the seat of government of Northwest Territories in Canada. It is a u ...

. He served as the Minister of Renewable Resources for the Government of the

Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories is a federal Provinces and territories of Canada, territory of Canada. At a land area of approximately and a 2021 census population of 41,070, it is the second-largest and the most populous of Provinces and territorie ...

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/ref> Arngna'naaq was elected to the Kivallivik electoral district in the

1991 Northwest Territories general election The 1991 Northwest Territories general election was held on October 15, 1991. Election Results The election was held in 24 constituencies with 16,068 ballots cast, a turnout of 76.25%. Outgoing Premier Dennis Patterson ran for re-election but wa ...

. He defeated two term incumbent Gordon Wray to win the Kivallivik electoral district. Arngna'naaq ran for a second term in office in the

1995 Northwest Territories general election 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

but was defeated by candidate Kevin O'Brien. As of 14 April 2010, he was the Acting Senior Consumer Affairs Officer for the

Government of Nunavut The Government of Nunavut ( Inuinnaqtun ''Nunavut Kavamanga''; ) is the body responsible for the administration of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. In modern Canadian use, the term ''Government of Nunavut'' refers specifically to the executi ...

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Living people 20th-century Inuit people 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories 21st-century Inuit people People from Baker Lake Inuit from the Northwest Territories Inuit politicians Inuit from Nunavut Year of birth missing (living people) {{NorthwestTerritories-politician-stub