{"id":507735,"date":"2026-03-01T17:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507735\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T17:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:03:18","slug":"federal-minister-gives-details-on-northern-share-of-new-community-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507735\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal minister gives details on northern share of new community fund"},"content":{"rendered":"

The federal government is aiming to earmark about $10 billion out of a new multibillion-dollar infrastructure fund toward northern, Indigenous and rural communities.<\/p>\n

Housing and Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson shared his goal for the Build Communities Strong Fund in an interview Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s lots of energy in this new government to invest in Nunavut,\u201d Robertson said, adding he has noted a \u201chuge gap\u201d in funding between Nunavut and the rest of Canada that has gone on for \u201cgenerations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Build Communities Strong Fund was announced in November. It will provide $51 billion over the next 10 years, starting in 2026, and $3 billion per year after that, toward water and wastewater infrastructure and other projects such as roads, bridges, hospitals, recreational centres and climate change adaptation.<\/p>\n

These projects will lay the foundation for another goal of the federal government \u2014 homebuilding.<\/p>\n

Homes cannot be built without proper infrastructure in place for water, wastewater and other community needs, Robertson said.<\/p>\n

To that end, Ottawa and the Nunavut government recently announced $480 million<\/a> to build 750 homes in Nunavut. This will count toward the territorial government\u2019s goal to build 3,000 homes<\/a> in Nunavut by 2030.<\/p>\n

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The federal government is ponying up $250 million and the remaining $230 million is covered by the Government of Nunavut.<\/p>\n

Ottawa announced a deal for the construction of 25 of the homes in late January. The responsibility for contracting the other 725 will be up to Nunavut Housing Corp.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy ongoing role is to push the pace and make sure that the funding moves and that the homes get built,\u201d Robertson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccountability is obviously critical \u2026 It\u2019s one thing to announce the funding, but it is even more important to see the results on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nunavut Housing Corp. plans to find builders for the homes through its own procurement process, which includes requests for proposals, public tenders, negotiated contracts and supply arrangements, said Winter Fedyk, a spokesperson for the housing corporation, in an email.<\/p>\n

The federal government\u2019s goal is to ensure housing in Nunavut is affordable, said Robertson.<\/p>\n

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The work will continue, he said, teasing a \u201cbig\u201d announcement on local infrastructure in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The federal government is aiming to earmark about $10 billion out of a new multibillion-dollar infrastructure fund toward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-507735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}