Inuit Tapiriit Canada Board of directors met in Inuvik to discuss Key Initiatives on Saturday, June 23 to 28 and 29 this year.
This was followed by a meeting on Monday, June 27 of the Inuit Crown Partnership Committee.
The board voted on Wednesday, June 22 to allocate $843 million in Federal funding from the Crown- Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada announced in Budget 2022 to support housing across Inuit Nunangat, by distributing the funds to each of the four regions.
The board members also voted to allocate $21 million fiscal year 2022-23 Federal funding from Employment and Social Development Canada to support Inuit Early Learning and Childcare. That money will be allocated to Inuit Land Claim Organizations to determine how to distribute those funds., with the goal ensuring Inuit families have access to high quality, affordable early learning and childcare programs regardless of where they live.
The board agreed to allocate $47 million in Federal funding from Crown Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs to ach of the 4 regions land claim organizations, funding designed to expand the Harvesters Support Grant and a new initiative called the Community Food Programs fund 2022-24.
Finally, the ITK board members decided to recommend two names for the Polar vessels to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard: Appattuk after Appattuk Island in Ungava Bay, and Imnayuaq which translated as “big cliff” in the Sallimiut dialect of Inuvialuit.
Inuit Tapiriit Canada will next meet in September.