Question Period Note: Northern Housing and Infrastructure

• Our government recognizes the importance housing and infrastructure and the challenges Northerners face, a point that has been further exacerbated by the global pandemic.
• That is why, through Budget 2021 we are providing dedicated northern infrastructure and housing investments including:
o $25 million each to the Governments of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut to support their immediate housing and infrastructure needs.
o A historic investment of $18 million for northern First Nation and Metis communities in the Northwest Territories.

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If pressed on additional infrastructure funding
• Budget 2021 is also providing $517.8 million for Inuit land claim organizations to support infrastructure in Inuit Nunangat, as well as $517.7 million to Indigenous Self-Government and Modern Treaty Partners’ to support action plans specific to infrastructure priorities, needs and circumstances.
• Our Government has also established two dedicated intergovernmental task-forces to advance solutions and recommendations to respond to the critical housing and infrastructure needs in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.