Paul Quassa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Canadian politician, 4th Premier of Nunavut
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Place of Birth: Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada
About Paul Quassa
- Paul Aarulaaq Quassa (born 1951 or 1952) is a Canadian politician who served as the fourth Premier of Nunavut from November 2017 to June 2018.
- On June 14, 2018, he lost a non-confidence vote (16–3) and was replaced as Premier by former deputy premier Joe Savikataaq.First elected to the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in the 2013 election, he represents the electoral district of Aggu.
- He served in the Executive Council of Nunavut as Minister of Education during the 4th Legislative Assembly of Nunavut.
- He was reelected in the 2017 election, and was subsequently selected as premier at the Nunavut Leadership Forum under the territory's consensus government system.Quassa was born in an igloo at Manitok, a hunting camp near Igloolik.
- Quassa spent his childhood at a residential school in Churchill, Manitoba.
- He returned to Igloolik in 1972 to work on land claims and served as president of the Tunngavik Federation of Nunavut in the early 1990s, and was one of the negotiators of the land claim settlement that led to the establishment of Nunavut.
- He was dropped from the presidency in 1992 following allegations of sexual assault against a woman, but received a discharge in court and was subsequently reinstated as president of the organization and the successor Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated.
- Quassa spent a decade as a journalist with the CBC North and Isuma Productions.
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