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December
3 , 2004
FCNQ gets help from Quebec
The Fédération des Coopératives du Nouveau-Québec
in Baie d'Urfé will receive a $7 million guarantee on its $11 million
line of credit, Geoffrey Kelley, MNA for Jacques-Cartier, announced last month
at a board meeting of the FCNQ.
The guarantee, provided through Investissement Québec, will help finance
the FCNQ's oil distribution operations.
"Northern Québec co-ops have become a major economic force by getting
together, taking charge of their development, and investing their own money
in it," Kelley said.
To date, Investissement Québec has also invested $33.9 million in the
FCNQ.
The FCNQ's president, Pauloosie Kasudluak, Johnny Adams, chairman of the Kativik
Regional Government, and Anthony Ittoshat of Makivik Corporation, reminded people
who attended the board meeting that the network of 14 co-ops is an economic
force in Nunavik, earning revenues of $140 million and providing jobs for 250
people.
December
3 , 2004
Wildlife protection officers graduate
Kuujjuaq residents Vallée Saunders and David Watt were among the first
crop of wildlife protection officers to successfully complete their training
under the Paix des Braves and Sanarrutik agreements, signed three years ago
with the Cree and Inuit.
Eight officers, including two Cree and two Inuit, received their diplomas last
week at the Station touristique de Duchesnay where Quebec's wildlife protection
officers receive their training.
The Paix des Braves and Sanarrutik agreements said Quebec would train and hire
wildlife protection officers to work in northern Quebec and make sure wildlife
laws and regulations are respected.
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