Roundtable talks on Manitoba-Nunavut cooperation – Thompson Citizen
May 1, 2015
More than 100 representatives of Manitoba and Nunavut communities and governments were in Winnipeg last week for a three-day Hudson Bay Neighbours Regional Roundtable summit co-chaired by Manitoba deputy premier and Aboriginal and Northern Affairs Minister Eric Robinson and Nunavut deputy premier Monica Ell.
Manitoba participants included the mayors of Gillam and Churchill, the chiefs of Sayisi Dene and Fox Lake First Nations and also Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger, Health Minister Sharon Blady and Food and Rural Development Minister Ron Kostyshyn.
Nunavut delegates included representatives of Kivalliq hamlets and the hamlet of Sanikiluaq, president of the Kivalliq Inuit Association David Ningeongan and Nunavut government ministers George Kuksuk and Paul Okalik as well as Kivalliq MLAs Alexander Sammurtok, Allan Rumboldt and Steve Mapsalak.
