Gooteleah "Goo" "Mosa" Arlooktoo (November 28, 1963 – April 30, 2002) was an

Inuk Inuit (singular: Inuk) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Russia, including Greenland, Labr ...

Canadian politician and former cabinet minister from the

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, Canada. He briefly served as acting premier of the territory.

Political career

Arlooktoo was first elected to the Northwest Territories legislature in the

1995 Northwest Territories general election 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

. He won the electoral district of Baffin South. In his first term in office he was appointed to the cabinet becoming Minister of Justice and Housing and Deputy Premier. Arlooktoo became Acting Premier after the sudden resignation of Premier

Don Morin Don Albert Morin (born 1954 in Hay River, Northwest Territories) was the seventh premier of the Northwest Territories The premier of the Northwest Territories is the first minister and head of government for the Canadian territory of the Nor ...

who resigned over conflict of interest allegations. He served in this capacity from November 26 until December 10, 1998 when then Legislative Assembly chose Jim Antoine to lead the government. Arlooktoo left the Northwest Territories legislature when the territory of

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was created to run in the

1999 Nunavut general election The 1999 Nunavut general election was the first general election in the territory and was held on February 15, 1999, to elect the members of the 1st Legislative Assembly of Nunavut. Although Nunavut did not become a territory until April 1, 1999 ...

. He was considered very likely to become Premier in the new territory, however he was defeated by Olayuk Akesuk in an upset. Arlooktoo himself finished a close second.

Late life

After his defeat for the Nunavut Legislature he became assisted the fledgling government by holding orientations to help train newly elected members in the territory to assist them in performing their duties. He then became Executive Director of the Qikiqtaaluk Wildlife Board which he held until his death in 2002. He died suddenly of a heart attack at his home at the age of 38 on April 30, 2002. Arlooktoo's father Joe Arlooktoo also served as a Member of the Northwest Territories Legislature.

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