Subhead:Idlout previously faced backlash after she was forced to repay the House of Commons $1,756 for improperly claiming expenses for purchases made from her own business.#
Federal records show companies owned by former NDP MP turned Liberal caucus member Lori Idlout and her husband received nearly $600,000 in federal contracts over the past five years, much of it tied to Indigenous sensitivity and cultural training for government employees.
According to an Inquiry of Ministry response tabled in the House of Commons, Idlout-linked companies NVision Insight Group Inc., Nunavut Holdings Inc., and Carvings Nunavut Inc. received a combined $583,848 in federal payments since 2021.
The largest single client was the federal Public Prosecution Service, which paid NVision $390,731 for training related to “historical relationships, Indigenous realities and trauma.”
