Federal Program Offering Free Snowmobiles for Arctic Residents Cost $32M in 2023

Published on March 5, 2024

A federal program providing free snowmobiles to Arctic residents came with a $32 million price tag in 2023, quadruple the $8 million Ottawa budgeted for the initiative in 2022. The federal government committed more than $96 million over a three-year period to an initiative aimed at supporting traditional indigenous activities through the Harvester Support Grant Program, cabinet disclosed in a Inquiry of Ministry response obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter. “The full amount of this investment has been committed to 24 recipient organizations,” the report said. The report was tabled in the Commons at the request of Conservative MP Ziad Aboultaif who questioned the total funding committed through the harvester program since it was introduced in 2020....

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