Inuit leaders had frank conversations with the prime minister and federal cabinet ministers on Friday about the urgent need to address a lack of housing and other basic infrastructure across Inuit homelands.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador’s northernmost community, for the first time on Friday to co-chair an annual Inuit-Crown Partnership Committee meeting with Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) President Natan Obed.
The needs were apparent as soon as Trudeau’s plane touched down on the community’s short gravel airstrip located on the edge of the Labrador Sea. It was the first time a prime minister ever landed in Labrador’s
