Jack Anawak
Jack Iyerak Anawak ᔭᒃ ᐃᐊᕋᒃ ᐊᓇᕙᒃ |
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Member of Parliament for Nunatsiaq | |
In office 1988–1997 |
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Preceded by | Thomas Suluk |
Succeeded by | Nancy Karetak-Lindell |
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut | |
In office 1999–2004 |
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Preceded by | first member |
Succeeded by | Tagak Curley |
Constituency | Rankin Inlet North |
Personal details | |
Born | Repulse Bay, Northwest Territories |
September 26, 1950
Political party | Liberal (MP, 1988-97) Non Partisan (MLA, 1999-04) New Democrat (Nominee, 2015) |
Jack Iyerak Anawak (born September 26, 1950) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Nunatsiaq in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1997. He sat in the house as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. Following his retirement from federal politics, he also served a term in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut after that territory was created in 1999. He ran as the New Democratic Party's candidate for the riding of Nunavut in the 2015 election, but was defeated by Liberal candidate Hunter Tootoo.
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Political career[edit]
Federal politics[edit]
Anawak was first elected in the 1988 election, and served as the Liberal Party's opposition critic for Northern Affairs in the 34th Canadian Parliament. Re-elected in the 1993 election, which was won by the Liberals, he was named parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development in the government of Jean Chrétien.
Territorial politics[edit]
In 1999 he was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, but did not run for re-election in 2004.
Anawak attempted to run for a seat in the 2008 Nunavut general election. He filed nomination papers to run in the electoral district of Akulliq but was denied as a candidate by Elections Nunavut Chief Electoral Officer Sandy Kusugak as he was not a full-time resident of Nunavut at the time his nomination papers were filed. Anawak took Elections Nunavut to court over and managed to halt the election in that district.[1]
The case is currently before the Nunavut Court of Appeal, where the judge will decide whether or not to strike down the current election residency laws.[1]
Return to federal politics[edit]
In 2015, Anawak announced his intent to run for the federal parliamentary seat of Nunavut, which replaced his former seat of Nunatsiaq, in the 2015 election, this time as the candidate of the New Democratic Party.[2] He came second in the race.
Popular culture[edit]
When the Canadian two-dollar coin was introduced, a number of nicknames were suggested. Jack Anawak proposed the name "Nanuq" [nanook, polar bear] in honour of Canada's Inuit people and their northern culture; however, this culturally meaningful proposal went largely unnoticed beside the simple, mass-appeal "Twonie/Toonie".[3][4]
Electoral History[edit]
Canadian federal election, 2015: Nunavut | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | Expenditures | |||
Liberal | Hunter Tootoo | 5,619 | 47.11% | +18.49 | – | |||
New Democratic | Jack Iyerak Anawak | 3,171 | 26.58% | +7.14 | – | |||
Conservative | Leona Aglukkaq | 2,956 | 24.78% | -25.07 | – | |||
Green | Spencer Rocchi | 182 | 1.53% | -0.55 | – | |||
Total valid votes/Expense limit | 11,928 | 100.0 | $202,334.18 | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 95 | – | – | |||||
Turnout | 12,203 | 62.54% | – | |||||
Eligible voters | 19,223 | |||||||
Source: Elections Canada[5][6] |
Canadian federal election, 1993: Nunatsiaq | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
Liberal | Jack Iyerak Anawak | 6,685 | 69.79 | +29.85 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Leena Evic-Twerdin | 1,970 | 20.57 | −2.37 | ||||
New Democratic | Mike Illnik | 924 | 9.65 | −23.51 | ||||
Total valid votes | 9,579 | 100.0 | ||||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +16.11 |
Canadian federal election, 1988: Nunatsiaq | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
Liberal | Jack Iyerak Anawak | 3,356 | 39.94 | +11.04 | ||||
New Democratic | Peter Kusugak | 2,786 | 33.15 | +4.50 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Sedluk Bryan Pearson | 1,928 | 22.94 | −28.52 | ||||
Independent | Richard Inukpak Lee | 333 | 3.96 | – | ||||
Total valid votes | 8,403 | 100.0 | ||||||
Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | +3.27 |
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Akulliq election CANCELLED". Elections Nunavut. October 7, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-07.
- ^ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/jack-anawak-named-as-nunavut-s-ndp-candidate-1.3201188, Jack Anawak named as NDP's Nunavut Candidate, August 23, 2015, Retrieved August 24, 2015
- ^ http://openparliament.ca/hansards/1325/13/only/, Jack Iyerak Anawak on Two-Dollar Coin - Hansard April 26th, 1996, Retrieved March 30, 2011.
- ^ http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1881577, WordReference Forums - Vocabulaire Anglo-Normand, Retrieved March 30, 2011.
- ^ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Nunavut, 30 September 2015
- ^ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
External links[edit]
- Members of the House of Commons of Canada from the Northwest Territories
- Liberal Party of Canada MPs
- Inuit politicians
- Members of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut
- 1950 births
- Living people
- Canadian Inuit people
- People from Rankin Inlet
- Indigenous Members of the House of Commons of Canada
- New Democratic Party candidates in the 2015 Canadian federal election