Question Period Note: Northern and Arctic Post-Secondary Education

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• Building the North is as much about people as it is about roads and ports. Access to high-quality education is critical to not only individual success, but to our economic success. Education, especially education close to home, supports resilience and self-determination.
• The Government of Canada has made strategic investments to support Indigenous and territorial partners with post-secondary institutions. Budget 2025 will build on this, by investing in the creation of Inuit Nunangat University, Canada’s first University in the Arctic.

The Government of Canada has been actively working to improve post-secondary education in Canada’s north through targeted investments. Notably, in 2020 Northern Affairs established an arms-length Task Force on Northern Post-Secondary Education.
The Task Force conducted extensive engagement with northerners, completed its mandate and released its final report in March 2022. Within the report there was a total of 37 Calls to Action.
Since 2019 the Department has invested over $50 M in support of closing the gaps in post-secondary education in the north. These were targeted investments to Yukon University, Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning and Aurora College.

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