Hunter Tootoo

Hunter A. Tootoo is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Nunavut from 2015 to 2019. Elected as a Liberal to the House of Commons, he was appointed Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard by Justin Trudeau on November 4, 2015. Tootoo resigned from that position on May 31, 2016, to take a leave from Parliament and completed a two-month treatment program for alcohol addiction. He sat as an independent member for the remainder of the 42nd Parliament and did not run for re-election in 2019.