Media advisory - Dan Vandal, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indigenous Services, to announce important funding towards health, infrastructure, and economic development in Quebec

MALIOTENAM, QC, Aug. 13, 2019 /CNW/ - Please be advised that Dan Vandal, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indigenous Services, will make two announcements while visiting Indigenous communities in Quebec tomorrow.

First, Mr. Vandal will be announcing funding for health infrastructure and essential community infrastructure for Innu communities from Quebec's North Shore. 

Later that day, Mr. Vandal will announce funding for the commercial fisheries and tourism sectors under the Maritime Initiative to support Indigenous communities situated along the St. Lawrence river. 

Date: August 14, 2019

Health and community infrastructure funding announcement
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
Where:
Centre Miam Uapukun (located in the Maliotenam reserve)
191, rue de l'Église
C.P. 389 Moisie (Québec) G0G 2B0

Commercial fisheries sector funding announcement
Time: 4:30 PM (EST)
Where:
Maison de la Culture Innue d'Ekuanitshit
34 Rue Nashipetimit, Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, QC G0G 1V0

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SOURCE Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)

(media only): Kevin Deagle, Press Secretary, Office of the Honourable Seamus O'Regan, Minister of Indigenous Services, 873-354-0987; ISC Media Relations, 819-953-1160, [email protected]

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