Manitok Thompson Explained

Manitok Catherine Thompson
Birth Date:1955
Birth Place:Coral Harbour, Northwest Territories
Office1:MLA for Aivilik, NT
Term Start1:1995
Term End1:1999
Predecessor1:James Arvaluk
Successor1:riding dissolved
Office2:MLA for Rankin Inlet South/Whale Cove, NU
Term Start2:1999
Term End2:2004
Predecessor2:first member
Successor2:Levinia Brown
Party:non-partisan
consensus government

Manitok Catherine Thompson (born 1955 Coral Harbour, Northwest Territories) is a politician from northern Canada.

She was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories in a by-election held on May 8, 1995 held following the resignation of James Arvaluk. She served the Northwest Territories as the minister of Community and Regional Affairs, until the creation of Nunavut in 1999. In the 1999 Nunavut general election, she was elected as the first member for Rankin Inlet South/Whale Cove until 1999. She served as Nunavut's first female cabinet minister.

She retired from territorial level politics in 2004 and ran as an independent candidate in the 2004 Canadian federal election in Nunavut riding. She finished second.

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