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Biography
Manon Jeannotte |
An elected councillor since 2003, Ms. Jeannotte’s primary mandate is to represent the interests of her community’s urban members on her Nation Council and any other appropriate government body. She has earned a reputation for ethics, loyalty, respect, organizational skill, and an ability to get the job done. She also sits on the Table de Négociation tripartite de Gespeg and the Migmawei Mawiomi comprehensive land claim technical committee. In January 2007, she established the Gespeg sectoral working group on economic development (consisting of native organizations and various government and private-sector stakeholders) to help improve quality of life and ensure a promising future for all members of her community.
Ms. Jeannotte has been actively involved in her community of origin for more than 10 years. Whether doing volunteer work, setting up an urban member strategic committee and related services, or lobbying to advance Gespeg’s priority issues, she has always been involved and available.
In 2000 Ms. Jeannotte was one of six native interns selected from more than 400 candidates in a national contest, organized by Statistics Canada, in response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP). The goal of the two-year training program was to help participants acquire certain skills and improve the statistical capacity of their communities for the benefit of certain aboriginal organizations. After finishing the program, Ms. Jeannotte worked as Director General of Femmes Autochtones du Québec before assuming her present duties as a council member.
As part of a graduate-level condensed program in multicultural education, Ms. Jeannotte helped Parks Canada draft a memorandum on the presence of the Micmac in Gaspé, which was later submitted to the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. In 1998, the Quebec Council of Senior Federal Officials awarded her a certificate of appreciation for contributing to the partnership for the "Project to Commemorate the History of First Nations and Inuit in Quebec".
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