- Levi Barnabas
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name = Levi Barnabas
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birth_date =January 24 ,1964
birth_place = Igloolik
residence =
office1 = MLA for Quttiktuq, NT
term_start1 = 1995
term_end1 = 1999
predecessor1 =Ludy Pudluk
successor1 = riding dissolved
office2 = MLA forQuttiktuq , NU
term_start2 = 1999
term_end2 = 2000
predecessor2 = first member
successor2 =Rebekah Williams
office3 = MLA forQuttiktuq , NU
term_start3 = 2004
term_end3 =
predecessor3 =Rebekah Williams
successor3 = incumbent
party = non-partisanconsensus government
religion =
occupation =Levi Barnabas was born
24 January 1964 in Igloolik,Nunavut ,Canada . He was elected to theLegislative Assembly of Northwest Territories in 1995 and served until Nunavut was created in 1999. Barnabas served as the first Speaker in theLegislative Assembly of Nunavut .In 1999 he was elected to the
1st Legislative Assembly of Nunavut but had to resign in August 2000 after being convicted for sexual assault. The conviction came at the same time asJames Arvaluk was charged with assault against his girl friend. He plead guilty and resigned. The two scandals rocked the new government, and sent it plummeting in popular opinion. The resignation led to the first by-election in Nunavut history.Barnabas ran in the December 2000 by-election but was defeated by
Rebekah Williams . He ran again in the 2004 Nunavut election in a hotly contested race and defeated Williams by doubling her vote count.External links
* [http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut000930/editorial.html An Overwhelming Agenda? Nunatsiaq News 09/22/2000]
* [http://www.assembly.nu.ca/english/members/bios/barnabas.html Levi Barnabas at the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut]
* [http://www.cbc.ca/nunavutvotes2004/riding/014/index.html Quttiktuq riding profile CBC]
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