Premier Refers Conflict of Interest Allegations to Integrity Commissioner

Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok has denied his involvement in an alleged conflict of interest, where someone who lives with a cabinet minister was assigned to be the acting deputy minister of the minister’s department, Nunatsiaq News reports.

“I did not endorse the acting assignment,” Akeeagok said in the legislative assembly on Tuesday.

He said he plans to bring the issue to the Nunavut’s integrity commissioner Katherine Peterson for review and will seek her advice on the next steps.

Deputy minister is the second-highest position in a Government of Nunavut department, working directly under a department’s minister, who is an elected official.

Akeeagok confirmed the person was the acting deputy minister between Dec. 16 and Dec. 20 of last year.