Nunavut economy should depend less on southern labour, says Patterson – Nunatsiaq News
Feb 8, 2021
Canada’s next federal budget should include measures to help make Nunavut less dependent on southern labour and federal transfers, says Senator Dennis Patterson.
Patterson, a Conservative member of the Senate and the territory’s only representative in Parliament’s upper house, said this in his pre-budget submission on Feb. 3. He recommends the federal Liberal government move to address many of the territory’s needs, from better internet to a fisheries reconciliation agreement.
“I have a platform that others don’t have to speak for Nunavut in Ottawa and I am determined to take full advantage of that platform,” he said in an interview.
The federal government hasn’t announced when it will release its next budget, but it usually happens in March.
