Rebecca Alty is a Canadian politician who has been

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since 2025. A member of the

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, Alty was elected to the

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during the

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and serves as the member of Parliament (MP) for

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. Alty was the 15th mayor of

Yellowknife Yellowknife is the capital, largest community, and the only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of t ...

from 2018 to 2025 and a city councillor for 2012 to 2018.

Federal politics

On May 13, 2025, Alty was became Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations in

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's cabinet. Alty became the first federal minister from the Northwest Territories since 2006 and the first full cabinet minister with a porfolio ever to be from the Northwest Territories.

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