Co-chairs Natan Obed, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, and Rebecca Alty, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, deliver opening remarks at a meeting of the Inuit-Crown Partnership Committee in Ottawa Nov. 24.
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Some Indigenous leaders say Tuesday’s federal budget lacks the investments in health and education their communities desperately need.
Some Indigenous leaders say Tuesday’s federal budget lacks the investments in health and education their communities desperately need.
Some Indigenous leaders say Tuesday’s federal budget lacks the investments in health and education their communities desperately need.
ITK welcomes Budget 2025 references to Inuit, including support for Inuit Nunangat University and $1B over four years for a new Arctic Infrastructure Fund
In December 2021, the Government of Canada committed to closing the Inuit Nunangat infrastructure gap by 2030. This report supports those efforts by outlining the areas where Inuit Treaty Organizations recommend prioritizing investment.
ITK has requested $75.1 billion over 35 years, including $30 billion over 10 years to cover urgent infrastructure needs
Inuit have been working with the Catholic Church since 2022 to secure the return of key items held within the Vatican’s ethnographic collections at the Anima Mundi Museum.
st money into Indigenous economic reconciliation’ and that somehow that will float all boats, and that we will all of a sudden see prosperity across our society,” said ITK President Natan Obed.
“It is a little bit confusing to Inuit that all of a sudden, those people who otherwise have been completely ignorant of Inuit and our realities, are imagining they’re going to decide what happens in our homeland,” says ITK President Natan Obed.
Directors and Delegates renewed their commitment to uphold Inuit rights and self-determination through shared priorities
Obed re-elected to 4th term at ITK
