{"id":1491,"date":"2012-08-23T14:50:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T18:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:57:06","slug":"circumpolar-inuit-leader-applauds-appointment-of-leona-aglukkaq-as-arctic-council-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/press-releases\/circumpolar-inuit-leader-applauds-appointment-of-leona-aglukkaq-as-arctic-council-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Circumpolar Inuit leader applauds appointment of Leona Aglukkaq as Arctic Council Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\nOttawa, 23 August 2012 \u2013 The president of the Canadian chapter of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC Canada) is happy about the prime ministerial appointment of Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq as the next Chair of the Arctic Council.\r\n\r\nDuane Smith said in Ottawa today, \u201cICC believes that this appointment means the Canadian government is serious about working more closely with Arctic residents, and this is good news especially for its indigenous peoples.\u201d\r\n\r\nGiven ICC\u2019s 16 years of experience inside the Council, Mr. Smith said that his organization would be ready to work closely with Minister Aglukkaq, \u201coffering our perspectives and understanding of how best to get things done that matter for Inuit and all Canadians.\u201d\r\n\r\nIncidentally, for the first time in 12 years Canadian Inuit will have the opportunity and responsibility in 2014 of hosting the quadrennial ICC General Assembly during the 2- year period of Ms. Agukkaq\u2019s appointment. Along with that comes the hosting of ICC\u2019s Office of the Chair for a period of 4 years. \u201cThis overlap is not only fortunate, but bodes well for Canada taking an even greater leadership role inside the Council and within the growing global interest in the Arctic as a whole\u201d.\r\n\r\nThe Inuit Circumpolar Council represents Inuit from Russia, Alaska, Canada and Greenland on matters of international importance and fosters and celebrates the unity of Inuit. ICC Canada serves Canadian Inuit as their voice on international matters.\r\n\r\nFor more information:\r\n\r\nCarole Simon\r\n+1 613 563 2642csimon@inuitcircumpolar.com\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30","category-press-releases"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987515333,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/987515333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}