IQALUIT (July 12/99) - There will be one new face and some old faces in new places following changes to the government's senior staffing lineup announced last week.

Deputy minister of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth Peter Irniq has been loaned to the legislative assembly to establish the first Nunavut Language Commission, Conflict of Interest Commission and Access to Information Commission.

While Irniq is seconded to the legislative assembly, Carmen Levi, who had served as assistant deputy minister of Education, will be acting deputy minister of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth.

Formerly the assistant deputy minister of community government, Tom Sammartuk is moving from Iqaluit to Rankin Inlet to take on the new role as assistant deputy minister of Transportation.

Ross Mrazek was hired as deputy minister of Public Works, Telecommunications and Technical Services.

Though it gained a deputy minister, the department lost an assistant deputy minister -- Jamie Flaherty was shifted to assistant deputy minister of Human Resources, specializing in employee housing.

Flaherty will be replacing Leona Aglukkaq, who is moving over to the newly-established decentralization secretariat.

Any spare time executive and intergovernmental affairs assistant deputy minister Laura Gauthier had will disappear, as she takes on the added responsibility of helping cabinet minister Ed Picco oversee the Nunavut half of the Northwest Territories Power Corp.