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Article: Move them to Florida.(Brief Article)
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- Alberta Report
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- November 22, 1999
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Nunavut communities compete for a share of the new territory's huge federal transfers
On a per-capita basis, Nunavut may be the most extravagant method ever devised by Ottawa bureaucrats to consume taxpayers' money. Created last April from the eastern half of the Northwest Territories, the two-million-square-kilo-metre territory has a full, provincial-style government serving a population smaller than Corner Brook, Nfld. The cost to taxpayers: close to $700 million a year, or more than $25,000 in subsidies for each resident of Nunavut.
Nunavut's estimated population at the end of 1998 was 26,453 people, most of them Inuit living in 28 small communities. ...