The Canadian Coast Guard and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has partnered up to start a pilot Project.
Beverly Foster is the Manager for Indigenous relations and Partnership for the Canadian Coast Guard for the Arctic Region, and Aliana Niviatsiak is the Arctic Youth Council Coordinator with the Canadian Coast Guard based in Iqaluit.
Niviatsiak says that they are looking for 12 youth who are Inuit, Metis and First Nation between the ages of 18 to 30 to sit on this Youth Council.
The pilot project hope to engage youth in their departmental initiatives and will run until March 2022.
Click here when we speak with Foster and Niviatsiak later in the AtjiKangitut Program to find out more.