Question Period Note: Supplementary Estimates (B) 2024-25/ Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs

• The 2024-25 Supplementary Estimates (B) includes key initiatives totaling approximately $1.38 billion.

• Of that amount, $162.2 million is for Northern Affairs.

• These funds are important to advance the work to create more economic opportunities and a higher quality of life in Canada’s North.

• The majority of these funds will be used for the Northern Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program, the Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan and for the Northern Food Sovereignty.

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• Supplementary Estimates (B) provides $74.7 million of reprofiled funding for the Northern Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program.
• This funding will help the Government of Canada to continue to meet the objective of reducing the risk to human health and the environment and the associated financial liability at federal contaminated sites.
• This funding also aims to create socio-economic benefits for affected Indigenous communities and contribute to reconciliation efforts.

• Supplementary Estimates (B) provides $56.9 million of new funding to support Nutrition North Canada (NNC) to sustain investments in the Harvesters Support Grant and Community Food Programs Fund, launch Phase II of the Food Security Research and increase supports for the subsidy.

• This funding will increase the number of harvesting activities taking place in the North, deepen supports for local food infrastructure and expand food-sharing networks.

• This funding will continue to fill critical data gaps in food security research in the North and produce recommendations on how to improve the subsidy program alongside Indigenous partners.

• Supplementary Estimates (B) provides $25.2 million of reprofiled funding for the Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan.

• This funding will help the Government of Canada to continue to meet the objective of reducing the risk to human health and the environment and the associated financial liability at federal contaminated sites.

• This funding also aims to create socio-economic benefits for affected Indigenous communities and contribute to reconciliation efforts.

• Supplementary Estimates (B) provides $2.6 million of new funding to support the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning (to continue their Indigenous land-based initiative delivering post-secondary educational and research experiences in the North.

• This funding will help to narrow the gaps in accessing northern post-secondary education which will help prepare communities to respond to current and future socio-economic challenges.

• This funding also aims to support the shared priorities, goals and objectives of the Arctic and Northern Policy Framework in alignment with the Task Force on Northern Post-Secondary Education’s Calls to Action.

• Supplementary Estimates (B) provides $2.2 million of reprofiled funding to support completing legal obligations in the Nunavut Lands and Resources Devolution Agreement.

• This funding will help to fulfill the Minister of Northern Affairs’ mandate letter commitment to advance devolution with the Governments of Canada and Nunavut and Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated.

• This funding also aims to meet the Department’s core Planning and Performance metrics to Advancing Devolution, reconciliation and northern self-determination in Nunavut, and for all Canadians.