Charlie Watt

rdf:langString Charlie Watt

rdf:langString Charlie Watt

rdf:langString Charlie Watt

rdf:langString Fort Chimo, Quebec, Canada

rdf:langString The Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples, The Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans

rdf:langString Senator for Inkerman, Quebec

rdf:langString Charlie Watt OQ (born June 29, 1944) is a former Canadian Senator from Nunavik, Quebec. A hunter and businessman by profession, Watt is an Inuk and served as Northern officer with the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs from 1969 to 1979. He was an early leader in the Indigenous rights movement in Canada, and represented the Quebec Inuit in the negotiations leading to the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement. In 1984 he was appointed to serve in the Senate of Canada, and he was the second Inuk to achieve this post. In 1994, he was named Officer of the National Order of Québec. In 2018, he resigned from the Senate of Canada following 34 years of representing the Inuit in the Upper Chamber. He did so following his election to President of Makivik Corporation. This was his third election to the position, and he achieved it with 54% of the vote. He resigned from the Senate, effective March 16, 2018 in order to focus on his duties with Makivik. He is the brother of activist and author Sheila Watt-Cloutier.