Supporting Inuit Priorities

  • Work with Inuit to finalize a co-developed Inuit Nunangat Policy and accelerate its implementation.
  • Co-developing and continuing to invest in a distinction-based Mental Health and Wellness Strategy that meets the deep and unique needs of all Inuit to address the ongoing impacts of colonization and residential schools. A co-developed mental health and wellness strategy could also respond to the prevalent opioid crisis, include culturally appropriate wraparound services for addictions and trauma, suicide, and life promotion, and the building of treatment centres based on the priorities of Inuit communities.
  • Continuing—in close collaboration with Inuit—to deliver distinctions-based support in response to COVID-19.
  • Work to establish a new national benefits-sharing framework to ensure that Inuit communities directly benefit from major resource projects in Inuit Nunangat.
  • We will continue to work in partnership with Inuit through the economic recovery to support the growth of Inuit economies.
  • Continuing work to fully implement Inuit land claims agreements.
  • Fully implementing An Act respecting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and co-developing the Action Plan to achieve the objectives of the Declaration.
  • Working with Inuit to implement $2.2 billion over 5 years beginning in 2021-22, and $160.9 million ongoing, to address violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people through implementation of the Federal Pathway and the 2021 National Action Plan.
  • Continuing to support Inuit-specific approaches on the elimination of tuberculosis in Inuit Nunangat.
  • Continuing to fully implement the Indigenous Languages Act, in order to preserve, promote, and revitalize Indigenous languages in Canada, supported with long-term, predictable, and sufficient funding.
  • Working with Inuit to continue to fully implement An Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis Children, Youth and Families with long-term, predictable, and sufficient funding to support its full implementation.
  • Continuing to work in partnership with Inuit on addressing climate change, specifically in tracking the impacts of climate change on their traditional lands and waters and charting collaborative strategies forward.
  • Continuing to work with Inuit to improve food security in Inuit Nunangat, including through the Harvester Support Grant, and amending the Nutrition North Canada program to make the program more transparent and responsive to Inuit needs.
  • As set out in our permanent bilateral process, we commit to meet regularly through the Inuit-Crown Partnership Committee to make progress on Inuit priorities.