Jake Ootes

Jake Ootes

Jake Ootes (born: ) is a retired territorial level politician and newspaper and magazine publisher from Northwest Territories, Canada.

Ootes began his career in politics working for the Northwest Territories Legislative Council in 1964 as a Hansard editor, he worked in that position until 1967. In 1967 Ootes became an Executive Assistant for Northwest Territories Commissioner Stuart Milton Hodgson. He served in that position until 1975.

Ootes left his position in the Commissioners office to buy a newspaper in 1975, he grew a small publishing business. Publishing newspapers and magazines until he sold his interests in 1995 to run for electoral politics.

Ootes was elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the 1995 Northwest Territories general election winning the Yellowknife Centre district. He won his second term in office with 60% of the vote in the 1999 Northwest Territories general election. He retired from his seat at the dissolution of the legislative assembly in the 2003 election.

His brother Case Ootes is a municipal councilor in Toronto, Ontario.

External links

* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/Infoparl/english/issue.htm?param=159&art=475 Interview: Jake Ootes, MLA Constitutional Evolution in the Western Arctic]


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