The 2022 Canadian federal budget is promising millions of dollars for housing in Inuit communities and the modernization of Arctic defense, among other northern investments, says Nunatsiaq News.

The three territorial governments are to receive $150 million “to support affordable housing and related infrastructure.” Of that money, $60 million is going to the Government of Nunavut.

Inuit communities across Canada are also set to receive an additional $845 million over seven years in housing support. That comes from a proposed $4 billion in housing services through Indigenous Services Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada.

On defense, the budget repeats a 2021 commitment to spend $252 million over five years “to sustain existing continental and Arctic defense capabilities” and to modernize the North American Aerospace Defense Command.