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- 1 2 3 Dwain Wilken (December 18, 1998). "MLAs pick Jim Antoine as the new premier". Nunatsiaq News.
- ↑ "Item 9: Election of Ministers" (PDF). Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) . Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories. January 17, 2000. p. 24. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 2, 2011. Archived January 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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