Utoo Radio wityh Other News Sources - September 30, 2024 - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed a funding agreement with the Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) government and the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation to support Inuit-led child and family services.

The agreement will provide $533.5 million over the next decade for the implementation of Inuvialuit Qitunrariit Inuuniarnikkun Maligaksat, the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation's child and family services law.

The N.W.T. government also provides $209,391 annually for this.

The signing comes two years after the N.W.T. government joined a Supreme Court legal challenge of Canada's Indigenous child welfare law, which was upheld by the Supreme Court in February.