Question Period Note: Accelerating Major Projects in the North

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• Nation-building projects in Canada's North will help diversify trade, strengthen the economy and secure the Arctic.

• Northern Regulatory Acceleration measures, including Indigenous-led cumulative effects studies, will help inform regulatory processes and clear the way for good projects to be built quickly.

• We will continue to work in close collaboration with territorial governments, Indigenous partners, boards, and proponents to build big things while respecting modern treaties and the North’s unique environmental and economic realities.

The Government of Canada has committed to establishing One Canadian Economy and accelerating the development of major infrastructure projects in the North. Northern projects are regulated by co-management regimes which implement commitments from Modern Treaties. There are distinct regimes in the Yukon, the Mackenzie Valley area and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region of the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.

Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada delivers the Northern Regulatory Initiative to support regulatory readiness and the Northern Participant Funding Program to enable participation in regulatory processes. Accelerating the development of major infrastructure projects in the North requires enhancements to these programs to help ensure that information needed to inform regulatory processes is available, and Indigenous governments and organizations have the ability to meaningfully participate in these processes.

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