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Devendra Bhandari began working for the Nunavut Water Board in July 2007. In 1991, after graduating from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal as a civil engineer, he joined Department of Water Supply and Sewerage of the Government of Nepal. He has worked as the head of various district level offices of the department for several years until he emigrated to Canada in 2004. Before joining Nunavut Water Board, he passed Master of Engineering courses in Environmental Engineering from the University of Alberta in May 2007.
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Each year, the government of Nunavut receives a large grant, or transfer of money, from the federal government. In 1999 the federal transfer was C$585 million, which amounted to more than 90 percent of Nunavut’s budget. Without such financial support from the Canadian government, Nunavut would not be able to operate its government or provide basic services to its residents. This level of financial dependency is due partly to Nunavut’s limited powers of taxation. For example, the federal government, not the territorial government, collects the royalties from resource development. This heavy dependency on the federal government is ... true for the other northern territories, the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories.
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The Nunavut government faces many challenges, including creating employment opportunities for a large workforce of young people. About 56 percent of Nunavut’s population is under the age of 25. Other challenges facing the territory are how to increase residents’ income and education levels, and find ways to cope with a cost of living that is two to three times higher than that of southern Canadians. The government of Nunavut enables residents of the territory to decide themselves how they want to meet these challenges. The government has powers like those of the other two territorial governments. It has an elected legislative assembly, a cabinet and a territorial court.
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It is a commonly-held misconception that Nunavut is made up of some of the former regions of the NWT, separated in their entirety. This is not the case; the dividing line did not follow region boundaries, although boundaries have been subsequently finessed so that three former NWT regions collectively constitute Nunavut. They serve (under different names) as census divisions, but have no autonomous governments:
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As the newest and largest jurisdiction in Canada, Nunavut is emerging as a key economic, cultural and political force. Qaujisaqtiit Society enables member organizations, foundations, corporations and government to partner in support of the growth and sustainable development of Nunavut.
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In April of 1999, Nunavut became the first territory to enter the federation of Canada since Newfoundland joined in 1949. It is subject to the Canadian Constitution and it's a public government with all of its citizens having the same rights.
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