Time to improve outcomes, ensure northern communities’ needs are met

The priorities of the North are the priorities of our government.

The government has put $52-million toward 350 projects in northern and Indigenous communities for things like assessing the impacts of glacial melt.Photograph courtesy of Christopher Michel

Opinion

BY LIBERAL MP YVONNE JONES

October 31, 2018

Canada is a proud Arctic nation, and its vast northern region is a defining part of who we are as a country and the role we play on the international stage. It is the homeland to more than 120,000 people, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. As a northerner myself, I know that interdependence, tremen...

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