Support to Northern Infrastructure Development (SNID)
Support to Northern Infrastructure Development (SNID) is a $41.7 million program to help northern infrastructure projects move through regulatory and consultation processes more efficiently and strengthen early project planning. CanNor is delivering the program, which includes grants and contributions funding as well as enhanced services, in Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon over four years, starting in 2025-26.
SNID is designed to:
- improve project readiness;
- increase proponent project management capacity; and
- strengthen community readiness for northern and Indigenous governments and organizations to meaningfully participate in and contribute to these initiatives.
This will help de-risk and accelerate more infrastructure projects to shovel-ready status, while supporting long-term economic benefits for northern and Indigenous communities.
SNID complements the funding available through the Arctic Infrastructure Fund, a $1B investment to strengthen infrastructure, sovereignty, connectivity and economic resilience in the North, delivered by Transport Canada.
SNID will be delivered through two streams:
- Stream 1 – Getting projects approved (community-level support for consultation readiness); and
- Stream 2 – Getting projects shovel-ready (proponent support for project management capacity-building).
What projects are eligible?
There is no open call for applications. Rather SNID is administered through a separate and targeted intake process.
SNID will focus on projects receiving support through, or preparing for consideration, under the AIF, while also strengthening community readiness to ensure northern and Indigenous governments and organizations can meaningfully participate in and benefit from these infrastructure initiatives.