Mandy Gull-Masty makes career of beating the odds – Nunatsiaq News

Jul 15, 2025

Recently elected Nunavik MP and Liberal Indigenous services minister looks back on pathway that led to Parliament

At just 14 years old, an age when most are worried about high school, Canada’s new Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty was facing the challenges that come with being a mother.

“I was like every regular teenager, I had my own issues,” Gull-Masty, the new MP for Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou, said in an interview. “I didn’t always make the best decisions, mine turned into being a teen mom.”

But the resourceful and determined teenager from Waswanipi, Que., would quickly learn that life is all about making the most out of her circumstances.

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