Don’t squander the chance for Arctic Policy Framework to be a gamechanger for Inuit

For too long, Inuit have suffered from incremental change that ultimately led to the management of poverty, rather than its elimination.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett announced in November, along with her cabinet colleagues, that a new Arctic Policy Framework would guide the federal government’s northern priorities until 2030. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY NATAN OBED

October 31, 2018

Inuit welcomed the Government of Canada’s announcement in December 2016 that it would co-develop a new Arctic Policy Framework (APF) with Inuit, replacing Canada’s 2009 Northern Strategy and the 2010 Statement on Canada’s Arctic Foreign Policy. The inclusion of Inuit in the announcement as co-...

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