Press Release
Montreal, April 11, 2025 – Leaders from Nunavik’s regional organizations are meeting this week in Montreal to advance coordinated work on shared priorities. While the meeting was initially planned to be in Nunavik, a shortage of hotel rooms across the region made it impossible to accommodate all delegations. As a result, the gathering was moved to Montreal—and will now serve as the first in what will become a yearly meeting of all Nunavik organizations.
This new annual meeting creates a dedicated space for Nunavik leadership to come together, beyond their day-to-day mandates, to address files that require a regional, collective approach.
“We all have a role to play in improving life in Nunavik,” said Makivvik President Pita Aatami. “This yearly meeting allows us to sit together and deal with the challenges we face in a more coordinated way, across mandates and sectors. “
The meeting agenda brings focus to the wide range of files that cut across mandates and demand collective action, including:
- Self-Determination: Advancing Inuit governance and long-term autonomy.
- Policing: Ensuring public safety systems are responsive to community realities.
- Working Conditions: Tackling the recruitment and retention crisis across sectors and eliminate discrepancies in working conditions for Inuit
- Child Safety and Family Services (NIP): Improving support and safeguarding Inuit families.
- Sanarrutik 2.0: Shaping the next stage of economic and community development.
- Procurement: Support and establish priority of Inuit employment, contracting and Inuit businesses through regional purchasing power.
- Municipal Services: Strengthening the foundations of everyday life in the North.
In connection with this change, Makivvik’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will now become a members-only meeting, beginning this year. This shift refocuses the role of the AGM as a space for direct accountability to Inuit beneficiaries, while providing a separate and dedicated forum for inter-organizational coordination.
Makivvik will aim to hold the new annual all-organization meetings prior to the Makivvik AGM to identify shared priorities and issues that may require discussion and decision-making at the Makivvik Annual General meeting
Further details about the outcomes of the meeting will be shared in the near future.
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Contact:
Carson Tagoona
Director of Communications
Makivvik
ctagoona@makivvik.ca
www.makivvik.ca
Makivvik is the land claims organization mandated to manage the heritage funds of the Inuit of Nunavik provided for under the James Bay and Northern Québec Agreement. Makivvik’s role includes the administration and investment of these funds and the promotion of economic growth by providing assistance for the creation of Inuit-operated businesses in Nunavik. Makivvik promotes the preservation of Inuit culture and language as well as the health, welfare, relief of poverty, and education of Inuit in the communities.
