Type of Intervention: Financial and Economic, Specific Action
Sectors Involved: Ethnic and Minority Affairs, Indigenous Peoples, Social Services
Intervention Categories: Finance policy and financial aid; Stimulus packages and financial support
Level of Jurisdiction: Federal
Lead People/Agency: Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) and Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)
Overview: Agreement reached to provide $2.6 million in federal funding to help Indigenous families who are choosing to be on the land as part of the territory’s response to COVID-19
The “At Home On The Land” initiative is aligned with broader public health recommendations for increased physical distancing during the Coronavirus pandemic. Many families in the Northwest Territories have already begun to move onto the land to cabins and camps where they can maintain safer physical distances than if they were to remain in their home communities
Full details here: https://www.canada.ca/en/indigenous-services-canada/news/2020/03/indigenous-territorial-and-federal-leaders-mobilize-funding-to-support-unique-northern-physical-distancing-initiative.html
Type of Justification: Advice of INTERNAL government advisory committee or group, Public Opinion (e.g. consultations, opinion polling)
Source of Evidence or Justification: National – government
Evidence/Justification: The news release references recommendations of the Northwest Territories’ Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Kami Kandola