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Idlout billed Canadians to buy artwork from her own business

On four separate occasions, taxpayers paid the bill after Idlout purchased nearly $2,000 in carvings from her own store.

Quinn Patrick
Mar 19, 2026
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Former NDP Nunavut MP Lori Idlout, who recently crossed the floor to join the Carney government, was forced to reimburse the House of Commons after she purchased artwork from her own business.

Idout is the sole proprietor of Carvings Nunavut, “an Inuk-owned family business based in the core of Iqaluit”, which sells sculptures made from “local materials like soapstone (serpentine), granite, jade, marble, caribou antler, whale bone, and ivory.”

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