Leona Aglukkaq

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name = Leona Aglukkaq
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residence = Gjoa Haven
office = MLA for Nattilik
term_start = 2004
term_end = 10 September 2008
predecessor = Uriash Puqiqnak
successor = vacant
party = non-partisan
consensus government
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Leona Aglukkaq is from the Gjoa Haven, Nunavut area of Canada. Aglukkaq is currently the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the electoral district of Nattilik having won the seat in the 2004 Nunavut election. She is currently the Minister of Health and Social Services and the Minister Responsible for the Status of Women.

Prior to becoming an MLA in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Aglukkaq was a long time employee of the Government of Nunavut and served on the Hamlet Council of Cambridge Bay.

On 10 September 2008, Aglukkaq stepped down to run in the 2008 Canadian federal election for the Conservative Party of Canada. [ [http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/story/2008/09/10/aglukkaq.html Nunavut health minister Aglukkaq running for Tories] ]

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External links

* [http://www.assembly.nu.ca/english/members/bios/aglukkaq.html Leona Aglukkaq at the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut]