Longtime GN staffer named interim deputy finance minister
Daniel Young spent past 16 years with Government of Nunavut
Daniel Young is the interim deputy finance minister for the Government of Nunavut, replacing the recently retired Jeff Chown, it was announced Tuesday. (File Photo)
Daniel Young is the new interim deputy minister for the Department of Finance, according to a Government of Nunavut news release Tuesday.
“We value Dan’s leadership and are happy to have his knowledge of our government operations,” Premier P.J. Akeeagok said in the release.
Young was raised in Nunavut and has spent the past 16 years with the GN, including time as director of fiscal policy, director of the Nunavut Liquor and Cannabis Commission and recently as assistant deputy minister for the fiscal management branch.
Young takes over from Jeff Chown, who retired from the GN in January.
Akeeagok thanked Chown, calling him “a key public servant” in his time with the territorial government. Chown’s career included being deputy minister of Executive and Intergovernmental Affairs as well as secretary to the cabinet.
Good Luck in your retirement Jeff. You deserve it after your years of sevice to the north.
Jeff Chown was by far the best Deputy Minister in the GN for the past several years. It’s a big loss to have him go, but wish him a very happy retirement. Finance is in great hands with Dan Young at the helm – a young, bright, competent leader in his own right. Best of luck in the future ahead for both of them.
Look how many positions this fella has been in. You know why? Staff has either resigned, were drive off or just plain ran away.
We should have our escape funds saved by the end of this year! We aren’t spending anymore time rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
Jeff Chown and his wife Catherine will be missed. They did an awful lot of volunteer work for the community.
Good luck dude! I get a kick out of people that come up to Nunavut, they always say how long they are here for and make it sound like a prison sentence!
Yes its like a frozen prison cell with frozen zombies roaming the streets LOL I have been here for 10 longgggggg years of watching the zombies.
Living in the north is usually a sacrifice in something for people who come. It is interesting that Inuit or born Nunavummuit have full license to complain that they go south for medical, south for university etc. and its hard be away from family and culture etc. Yet many people do the same and go north, sacrificing better living standards and family to do so. The ignorance of northerners about how lucky we are that people willing shows the narrow mindedness of people who have no world experience – there is nothing in NU without these people.
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It starts with daily interactions and social media posts like this. As more Inuit actually move and live in the south, gaining world experience outside a small hamlet or “city” like Iqaluit, they realize that the world is a big place, that there are billions of people living all over, and that they are not the center of the universe.
Wow! We are so lucky you/they came up here and saved us. Paint us all with the same brush why don’t you. Because not one of us work hard everyday to earn our keep and raise our children while at the same time trying maintain what is left of our culture that must be inclusive to everyone that also judge us. Thank you for your point of view because we had no clue.
You aren’t far off with the prison description. If I hadn’t made the mistakes and poor choices I did in my youth I would have never come here. I had three or four viable options at the time but I had someone here to stay with. His sentence ended a few years ago.