Reports of the Auditor General of Canada : Implementing the Labrador Inuit land claims agreement

Fall 2015 Reports of the Auditor General of Canada REPORT 3 Implementing the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Office of the Auditor General of Canada Performance audit reports This report presents the results of a performance audit conducted by the Office of the Auditor General of Canada under the authority of the Auditor General Act. [...] Section 13.12.7 of the LILCA states that if, after the agreement comes into effect, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans “decides to issue more Commercial Fishing Licences to fish for shrimp in Waters Adjacent to the [Labrador Inuit Settlement Area marine] Zone than the number available for issuance in the year of the Agreement, the Minister shall offer access to the Nunatsiavut Government through [...] Currently, Parks Canada and the Nunatsiavut Government are conducting respective legal reviews of the penultimate draft of the memorandum of understanding on the presentation, management, and safekeeping of archaeological materials in the Torngat Mountains National Park of Canada, with the shared intention to sign the memorandum in the fall of 2015 or as soon as possible, once the legal reviews ar [...] For example, the Nunatsiavut Government applied for and received some of the federal funding that the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation transferred to the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador to address affordable housing needs in the province. [...] However, unlike the funding the federal government provides to First Nations directly for housing, the funding from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation was provided to the provincial government to meet the needs of the entire province.