By Stephanie Taylor THE CANADIAN PRESS IQALUIT, Nunavut- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in Nunavut today to participate in a signing ceremony about transferring responsibilities for public lands and resources to the territory from the federal government. Ottawa says it represents the largest land transfer in Canada’s history and Nunavut’s premier says the agreement means it is taking one more historic step “towards the vision of a self-reliant” territory. In 2019, Trudeau’s then-Crown-Indigenous relations minister, Carolyn Bennett, signed an agreement-in-principle with Nunavut’s then-premier intended to serve as a guide for negotiating a final agreement. Nunavut was created as its own territory in 1999 and it entered the process of gaining control over its lands and resources in 2008 by signing a negotiation protocol with former prime minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative…
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