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.
