The Hamilton Spectator

Indigenous projects receive cash infusion

Ottawa will spend up to $800 million to support four major Indigenous-led conservation projects across the country covering nearly one million square kilometres of land and water, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says. Trudeau made the announcement at the Biosphere environment museum in Montreal accompanied by Indigenous leaders and federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault as a UN meeting on global biodiversity, known as COP15, takes place in the city. Trudeau said the four projects — which will be located in B.C., the Northwest Territories, northern Ontario and Nunavut — will be developed in partnership with the communities in question. “Each of these projects is different, because each of these projects is being designed by communities, for communities,” he said.

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