Pauloosie Keyootak

Pauloosie Keyootak
MLA
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut for Uqqummiut
In office
February 9, 2015 – September 20, 2021
Preceded bySamuel Nuqingaq
Succeeded byMary Killiktee
Personal details
Born1953 or 1954 (age 70–71)[1]
Political partynon-partisan
consensus government
ResidenceQikiqtarjuaq

Pauloosie Keyootak is a Canadian Inuk politician from Broughton Island, Northwest Territories, now Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, representing the electoral district of Uqqummiut, in a by-election on February 9, 2015.[2] He won the by-election over Niore Iqalukjuak, who had been the second-place candidate behind Samuel Nuqingaq in the 2013 election, and former MLA James Arreak.[2]

Keyootak is a resident of Qikiqtarjuaq.[2] He was formerly a president of the Qikiqtani Inuit Association, who was removed from that position in 2000 for reportedly violating the organization's code of conduct, although the organization has never disclosed the nature of the alleged violation.[2] He subsequently served on the municipal council in Qikiqtarjuaq, and on the board of directors of Arctic Co-op.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference cbc33116 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c d "Pauloosie Keyootak elected MLA for Uqqummiut in byelection". CBC News, February 10, 2015.
  3. ^ "Hometown vote-split decides Nunavut byelection". Nunatsiaq News, February 10, 2015.