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Nunavut Inuit Group Settles Ottawa Lawsuit for $255.5 Million

Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) and the Canadian government have settled a nine-year-old, copy billion lawsuit brought over alleged failures to implement key components of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (NLCA) reached in 1993.

The $255.5 million agreement, reached on March 5, was signed on May 4 as a way of ending the lawsuit, moving forward and compensating Inuit in Nunavut for the breaches, according to the Nunatsiaq News. The lawsuit was first filed in 2006.

Employment training for Inuit will take up copy75 million of the funds, with NTI investing the other $80.5 million, the Nunatsiaq News said. The settlement was reached just before a March trial would have started.

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