It’s not something that happens often in an election campaign, but read through the platforms of the four major parties running candidates in the North and there is something in there that might surprise you: an issue all of them agree on.
In their platforms, the Liberal, Conservative, NDP and Green parties all say they will support and, in some cases, expand the Indigenous Guardians program.
Introduced in the 2017-2018 federal budget, the pilot Indigenous Guardians program provided $5.7 million to 28 Indigenous communities across the country to help manage, protect and monitor ecologically sensitive areas. The guardians have been doing things like mapping permafrost, monitoring harvesting activities and
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