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Increased Funding to Reduce
Nunavik’s High Cost of Living
Makivik, KRG and Quebec reached an agreement last
December to increase funding to mitigate the effects of
the high cost of living for Nunavik residents. Over the next
three years, these measures will direct more than $33-million
towards reducing the cost-of-living inequities.
Previously, $5-million was injected each year into six
regional cost-of-living measures. As of April 2014, Quebec
began to invest additional amounts of $5-million (2014–2015),
$6-million (2015-2016) and $7-million (2016–2017), thereby
raising the cost-of-living
subsidy from $15-million
to $33-million for
the next three years.
The Quebec government
also announced
that it will double the
overall value of the
northern village portion
of the refundable
Solidarity Tax Credit
for individuals in
Nunavik, by increasing
the amount per eligible
adult to $1,620
beginning in 2014, plus
indexation annually thereafter. This is expected to bring
the province’s total future investment in the northern village
portion of the Solidarity Tax Credit for Nunavimmiut
to around $7-million in the first year.
KRG will use the cost-of-living subsidy to implement
new measures or improve existing measures for elders,
country and store-bought food, personal care and household
products, as well as gasoline, vehicles and equipment
for subsistence harvesting. These measures will promote
healthy lifestyles that take into account Inuit traditions and
culture, and the refundable Solidarity Tax Credit will target
the most disadvantaged. Makivik
A two-year study will be carried out and will provide an
in-depth analysis and evaluation of Inuit consumer patterns.
In a press release about this program, Jobie Tukkiapik was
quoted, “On completion of the study and before the end of
the current agreement, Makivik, KRG and the Quebec government
will undertake discussions to define effective and
long-lasting solutions to the high cost-of-living in Nunavik.”
Quebec and Nunavik Inuit have been working together
to reduce the cost of living in the region for more than 20
years. A refundable tax credit for individuals living in a
northern village was introduced in 1998 and in 2011 it was
folded into the Solidarity Tax Credit. An annual subsidy for
regional cost-of-living reduction measures was first put in
place in 2007.
SAMMY KUDLUK
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