Question Period Note: Northern Housing and Infrastructure

• Our Government recognizes the importance of infrastructure and the unique challenges face by Canada’s northern communities in accessing safe, adequate and affordable housing.

• That is why through Budget 2022, our government is proposing to invest $150 million over two years starting in 2022-23 to support affordable housing and infrastructure in the North.
o $60 million to the Government of Nunavut
o $60 million to the Government of the Northwest Territories
o $30 million to the Yukon Government

• This flexible funding will allow our territorial partners to continue to advance their most pressing housing and infrastructure needs immediately.

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If pressed on additional infrastructure and housing funding

• Budget 2022 proposes an additional $4 billion over seven years, starting in 2022-23, to Indigenous Services Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada to accelerate work in closing Indigenous housing gaps:
o $2.4 billion over five years to support First Nations housing on reserves
o $565 million over five years to support housing in First Nations Self-Governing and Modern Treaty Holders communities
o $845 million over seven years to support housing in Inuit communities
o $190 million over seven years for housing in Métis communities.
• Our Government through the intergovernmental task-forces will continue to advance solutions and recommendations in response to the critical housing and infrastructure needs of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

If pressed on the Urban, Rural and Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy
• Our Government recognizes the unique challenges that Indigenous peoples face with regards to accessing affordable housing.
• Through Budget 2022 we are proposing to invest $300 million over five years, starting in 2022-23, to co-develop and launch an Urban, Rural, and Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy.