{"id":2366,"date":"2012-08-01T21:17:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T21:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2018-11-30T00:19:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T00:19:09","slug":"task-force-arctic-governance-students-team-nunavik-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/news\/task-force-arctic-governance-students-team-nunavik-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"Task Force on Arctic Governance students team up in Nunavik, Qu\u00e9bec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was awarded the 2012 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council masters scholarship (Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship) to support my research on Qu\u00e9bec-Inuit relations at McGill University.\u00a0This research is a continuation of the work I did for the 2011 International Studies-Canadian Studies Task Force course I took at the University of Washington entitled, Arctic Governance.\u00a0This program enabled me to reorient my research towards current\u00a0Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois political affairs. The knowledge I built and the resources I\u00a0acquired through this Task Force provided me with the needed tools to\u00a0start a career with the Qu\u00e9bec Government.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2368\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2368\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/09\/maltais2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"maltais2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/09\/maltais2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/09\/maltais2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/09\/maltais2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/09\/maltais2-375x281.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/09\/maltais2-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/09\/maltais2-1140x855.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/09\/maltais2-108x81.jpg 108w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/09\/maltais2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa (right) and Dominic (second to the right) with Saturviit&#8217;s Board of Directors in the Kativil Regional Government building in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Through the Secr\u00e9tariat aux\u00a0Affaires Autochtones (SAA), I have been working closely on maintaining good relations between the Qu\u00e9bec government and the Inuit of Nunavik. I\u00a0recently had a chance to travel to Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, thanks to fellow\u00a0Task Force student Lisa Koperqualuk. Mme Koperqualuk, now president of\u00a0the Nunavik Women Association (Saturviit), invited me to the\u00a0association&#8217;s Board of Directors meeting, held in the Kativik Regional\u00a0Government&#8217;s building, as a SAA representent. This provided me with the\u00a0opportunity to exchange with the board and present to its members\u00a0various provincial programs and resources which are made available to\u00a0organizations like Saturviit.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Winter 2011 Task Force was entitled, &#8220;Melting Boundaries: Rethinking Arctic Governance.&#8221; Lisa&#8217;s chapter was enttitled, &#8220;Maqaittiit as a Profession&#8221; and Dominic&#8217;s chapter was entitled, &#8220;Qu\u00e9bec and Nunavik: A Governance Model.&#8221; The Task Force was co-led by Nadine Fabbi, Canadian Studies, and Vincent Gallucci, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. Julie Gourley, Senior Arctic Official, U.S. State Department, served as the expert evaluator. The Task Force will be offered again in Winter Quarter 2013 focused on Arctic Qu\u00e9bec.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/courses\/arctic.shtml\">View Task Force 2011 Website<\/a><br \/>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/staff.washington.edu\/nfabbi\/taskforce\/MeltingBoundaries.pdf\">View Task Force 2011 Report\u00a0<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Dominic Maltais,\u00a0Task Force on Arctic Sovereignty Graduate, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was awarded the 2012 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council masters scholarship (Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship) to support my research on Qu\u00e9bec-Inuit relations at McGill University.\u00a0This research is a continuation of the work I did for the 2011 International Studies-Canadian Studies Task Force course I took at the University of Washington entitled, Arctic<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/news\/task-force-arctic-governance-students-team-nunavik-quebec\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":2367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-2366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-undergrad-alumni-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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