Northern communities across Canada depend on well-maintained airports to keep them connected. These airports also support essential air services including community resupply, air ambulance, search and rescue, and forest fire response.
The Minister of Transport, the Honourable Omar Alghabra, today announced that the Government of Canada is making important safety investments at local and regional airports in Nunavut.
Through Transport Canada's Airports Capital Assistance Program, four airports in Nunavut will receive over $5.4 million for safety-related projects and equipment that will help maintain safe airport operations for passengers, crews and airport workers. The airports receiving funding are:
Cambridge Bay Airport
- $420,000 to purchase a 4x4 plow truck
Clyde River Airport
- $210,000 to purchase a loader-mounted snow blower
Coral Harbour Airport
- $420,000 to purchase a 4x4 plow truck
Whale Cove Airport
- $4.4 million to rehabilitate airside granular surfaces
This funding is in addition to the more than $1.9 million announced under the Program in May 2021, to support safety-related projects at the Coral Harbour, Kimmirut, Pangnirtung and Rankin Inlet airports.
