Question Period Note: Northern Housing and Infrastructure

• Our Government recognizes the importance of infrastructure and the challenges faced by Canada’s northern communities in accessing safe, adequate and affordable housing.
• Through Budget 2022, our government is investing $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.
• Furthermore, through Budget 2022, the Government of Canada is providing $34 million over seven years to four Métis groups in the Northwest Territories:
o $20 million to the Northwest Territories Métis Nation;
o $7 million to the North Slave Métis Alliance;
o $3.5 million to the Fort Simpson Métis Council;
o $3.5 million to the Fort Providence Métis Council;

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If pressed on additional infrastructure and housing funding

• Budget 2022 is investing 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

• Through Budget 2022 the Government of Canada is investing $300 million over five years, starting in 2022-23, to co-develop and launch an Urban, Rural, and Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy.