PM Carney meeting with Inuit leaders to discuss controversial bill

Prime Minister Mark Carney is in the north for a meeting with Inuit leaders Thursday to discuss his government controversial law for major projects.

Co-hosting the event is President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Natan Obed.

Also at the meeting will be several cabinet ministers and Inuit leaders for what is called the Inuit-Crown Partnership Committee.

Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty took to social media to say that the meeting is a way to discuss how projects can go through in a way that benefits everyone while respecting the rights of Inuit people.

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The recently passed and controversial Bill C-5 gives the government emergency-like powers to go ahead with projects that are deemed to be in the national interest.

This includes pipelines, railways and transmission lines.

Carney held a similar meeting earlier this month with First Nations chiefs in Gatineau, Que. after some leaders in Ontario began a court challenge of the Bill.

Many chiefs who attended the Gatineau meeting said they were not satisfied with the answers they received, or lack thereof.

Inuvik, N.W.T. is one of Canada’s northernmost towns and is in the province where Carney was born.

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