Makivik Corporation

8 BUSINESS ELITE CANADA | JANUARY 2019 order to uphold the constitutionally protected rights of all Nunavimmiut.” Makivik works within the Nunavik region with the main organizations created as a result of the JBNQA, with the government of Quebec, and the government of Canada, as well as with fellow Inuit from across Inuit Nunan- gat—the Inuit homeland—as part of the national Inuit political process, formally represented by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK). At the circumpolar level Makivik is a member of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC). Charlie Watt Sr. receiving the Air Inuit Award