Question Period Note: Northern Housing

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Reference number:
NA-2021-QP-0049
Date received:
Jul 22, 2021
Organization:
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
Name of Minister:
Vandal, Dan (Hon.)
Title of Minister:
Minister of Northern Affairs

Suggested Response:

• Our government recognizes the importance of safe, adequate and affordable housing and the unprecedented challenges that Northerners are facing in responding to their housing needs.

• Housing is critical to the social and economic well-being of Canada’s North. This important issues has been exacerbated by the pandemic.

• That is why in Budget 2021 we propose to invest:
o $25 million, in 2021-22, to the Government of the Northwest Territories, and
o $25 million, in 2021-22, to the Government of Nunavut to support the Territory’s immediate housing and infrastructure needs.

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