Letters to Provinces and Territories: Nunavut 2024

The Honourable Lorne Kusugak, M.L.A.
Minister of Finance
Government of Nunavut
Legislative Assembly Building
P.O. Box 2410
926 Federal Road
Iqaluit, Nunavut X0A 0H0

Dear Minister,

I am pleased to provide you with Nunavut’s transfer payment amounts for 2025-26 in accordance with the , Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, (the Act) and relevant regulations.

Total major transfers to Nunavut for 2025-26 will round to $2.3 billion, an increase of $124 million from 2023-24.

The first estimates of your territory’s Canada Health Transfer and Canada Social Transfer payments for 2025-26 are $54 million and $17 million respectively. In accordance with the legislated formula under the Act and its regulations, your jurisdiction’s Territorial Formula Financing payment for 2025-26 will be $2.2 billion.

Under the Working Together to Improve Health Care for Canadians Plan, the federal government guaranteed five per cent growth to the CHT from 2023-24 to 2027-28 to be paid through top ups as required. This year, the top up is worth a total of $713 million.

To access their share of the funding, provinces and territories were asked to take steps to improve the collection and management of health data. I am pleased that the Minister of Health has confirmed that all jurisdictions have met this condition. Nunavut’s share of the 2025-26 CHT top-up is $1 million.

Enclosed for your information is a table presenting the 2025-26 major transfer amounts for each province and territory. The table will be provided to your officials and posted on the Department of Finance’s website.

Yours sincerely,

The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, P.C. K.C., M.P.
Minister of Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs