Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, I would agree with that. There wasn't agreement such that everybody was entirely pleased. There was an agreement that the members of the working group were prepared for the bill to go forward. Whether everybody liked every single provision in the bill, I don't pretend to thin

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, there was discussion of that issue at the working group table. The members of the working group, NTI, GN, and NIRB and NPC, discussed whether participant funding should be included in the bill. In the end, it came down to providing a regulation-making authority for participa

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There's an ability to make a regulation to establish a participant funding program that's provided in part 1 of the bill.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm grateful for the opportunity to provide an overview of part 1 of the Northern Jobs and Growth Act today, the proposed Nunavut Planning and Project Assessment Act. This part sets out in federal statutes the Nunavut Planning Commission and the Nunavut