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Lori Idlout regrets expenses made while she was NDP MP
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The largest expenditure from Carvings Nunavut involved $1,380 in sculptures, cards, tote bags, hand-crafted keychains and zipper pulls, gifted to First Nations leaders, elders and other speakers at the NDP’s national caucus meeting in British Columbia, in September 2025.
The three other gifts were all under $200.
As for the travel expenses involving her spouse’s business, Al’s B&B in Igloolik, Finckenstein noted the stay was disclosed right after a trip in March 2025, and the MP’s choice resulted from a lack of other available accommodations.
Idlout and two staffers had initially hoped to book rooms at a hotel in Sanirajak, a small community about 70 kilometres from Igloolik where Idlout was hosting an event, but the hotel was fully booked.
The company, NVision Insight Group, has received $1.5 million in federal contracts since Idlout’s election five years ago.
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POLITICS SEP 3, 2026 – 3:54 PM EDT
Lori Idlout regrets expenses made while she was NDP MP
MP Lori Idlout says she accepts the findings of an ethics report which concluded she engaged in conflict of interest
Nunavut MP Lori Idlout, seen in a file photo, says she regrets various purchases her office filed over 2024 and 2025, saying it was a lapse in judgement.
By Miriam Lafontaine
Nunavut MP Lori Idlout agreed she made an error in judgement after a report released Wednesday concluded that expenses she claimed in 2024 and 2025 constituted a conflict of interest.…
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