Nunavik all Organizations meeting on key issues

Press Release

Montreal, April 11, 2025 – Leaders from Nunavik’s regional organizations are meeting this week in Montreal to advance coordinated work on shared priorities. While the meeting was initially planned to be in Nunavik, a shortage of hotel rooms across the region made it impossible to accommodate all delegations. As a result, the gathering was moved to Montreal—and will now serve as the first in what will become a yearly meeting of all Nunavik organizations.

This new annual meeting creates a dedicated space for Nunavik leadership to come together, beyond their day-to-day mandates, to address files that require a regional, collective approach.

“We all have a role to play in improving life in Nunavik,” said Makivvik President Pita Aatami. “This yearly meeting allows us to sit together and deal with the challenges we face in a more coordinated way, across mandates and sectors. “

The meeting agenda brings focus to the wide range of files that cut across mandates and demand collective action, including:

• Self-Determination: Advancing Inuit governance and long-term autonomy.
• Policing: Ensuring public safety systems are responsive to community realities.
• Working Conditions: Tackling the recruitment and retention crisis across sectors and eliminate discrepancies in working conditions for Inuit
• Child Safety and Family Services (NIP): Improving support and safeguarding Inuit families.

• Sanarrutik 2.0: Shaping the next stage of economic and community development.
• Procurement: Support and establish priority of Inuit employment, contracting and   Inuit businesses through regional purchasing power.
• Municipal Services: Strengthening the foundations of everyday life in the North.

In connection with this change, Makivvik’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will now become a members-only meeting, beginning this year. This shift refocuses the role of the AGM as a space for direct accountability to Inuit beneficiaries, while providing a separate and dedicated forum for inter-organizational coordination.

Makivvik will aim to hold the new annual all-organization meetings prior to the Makivvik AGM to identify shared priorities and issues that may require discussion and decision-making at the Makivvik Annual General meeting

Further details about the outcomes of the meeting will be shared in the near future.

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Contact:
Carson Tagoona
Director of Communications
Makivvik
ctagoona@makivvik.ca
www.makivvik.ca

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