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An extremely significant civil servant who made a vital contribution in shaping the policy in the Canadian North, Gordon Robertson, passed away at the age of 95, on Tuesday, in Ottawa. Robertson’s experience in the field of federal civil service is sprawled up to almost 38 years and five different prime ministers.
He held the office of deputy minister of northern affairs and Commissioner of the Northwest Territories from 1953 to 1963. During his tenure, 17 Inuit families were displaced from Inukjuak to the High Arctic, while his influence spread way beyond that in many other aspects of northern life, including the development of the education system. Later on Robertson took the office of the Privy Council as a Clerk, which is one of the top most civil service position in Canada. He was nominated as the Companion of the Order of Canada in 1976. He ultimately retired from public service in 1979 and took the duties of the president of the Institute for Research on Public Policy.
Later in 2000, Robertson narrated his entire public career, including when he was a senior public servant under multiple administrations, in a publication titled “Memoirs of a Very Civil Servant.” Soon after, Robertson produced a scholarship for Inuit students at Carleton University in 2004. Today’s Inuksuk High School of Iqaluit was originally named after Robertson as Gordon Robertson Education Centre. Canda’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, published an official statement yesterday declaring that
“Robertson will be remembered as a great Canadian and a devoted public servant.”
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