Socio-economic component

1. CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD. Socio-economic component • Baseline • Impact Assessment • Mitigation and Benefit Enhancement • Monitoring • Intervener Comments

2. CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD. Socio-economic component Baseline • Objectives • Key issues towards VEC identification • Employment and business • Integrity of traditional way of life • Individual and community well being • Infrastructure and social services • Territorial level employment and business, economic benefits • Approach • Study areas • Secondary data collection and literature review • Primary data collection (key informant interviews, participant observation) • Supplementary data collection as part of monitoring

3. CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD. Socio-economic component Impact Assessment • Approach • Criteria include direction • Qualitative vs. quantitative assessment • Individual vs. community level effects • Cumulative nature of socio-economic effects • Economic modelling

4. CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD. Socio-economic component Impact Assessment • Results • Employment and business benefits • Priority to Baker Lake • Direct and indirect • Subcontractor performance • Overall positive effects on individual and community wellness associated with increased economic opportunity • Positive and negative effects of moving to a mixed economy at individual and community level • More policing may be required • IIBA benefits at community and regional level • Significant economic effects at the territorial level

5. CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD. Socio-economic component Mitigation • Principles • Consultation • Participation • Sustainability • Mitigation and benefit enhancement measures • Employment and business opportunities (eg. preferential employment) • Education and training (eg. on the job, life skills) • Negative effects on wellness (eg. employment assistance, adaptive mitigations) • Workforce management (eg. code of conduct, rotational employment, cross cultural training) • Initiatives in support of individual and community wellness • Closure planning

6. CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD. Socio-economic component Implementation of Mitigation • IIBA • Consultation • Information disclosure • Community liaison officer • Public meetings • Stakeholder meetings • Partnerships • Economic development organizations • Education authorities • Social service delivery authorities • Grievance and dispute mechanisms • Monitoring for adaptive management

7. CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD. Socio-economic component Monitoring • Operations monitoring issues • Uptake of opportunities (employment, business, education and training) • Subcontractor performance • Health and safety • Consultations • IIBA compliance

8. CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD. Socio-economic component Monitoring • Collaborative monitoring issues • Individual and community wellness • Employee assistance • Relationship between economic growth and socio-economic status • Labour force adjustments • Access road effects • Cumulative effects • Collaborative monitoring principles • Participation of affected people • Complementarity • Efficiency

9. CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD. Socio-economic component Monitoring • Collaborative monitoring mechanisms • Need a consensus to emerge on monitoring requirements, roles and responsibilities • Negotiations between KIA, GN, GC, Hamlet of Baker Lake and Cumberland with goal of collaborative approach to socio-economic monitoring • Establishment of a multi-party monitoring committee • Contracting by Cumberland of a consultant to support the monitoring • Compliance monitoring of IIBA undertakings by KIA and Cumberland

10. CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD. Socio-economic component Government of Nunavut Comments • Collection of regional baseline data as input into regional monitoring • Primarily employment and business effects • Monitoring to include participation of GN, GC and other communities as well as KIA, Cumberland and Baker Lake • Need to agree on a cooperative mechanism • Monitoring to specifically address labour force adjustments in Baker Lake • Human resource inventory, hiring patterns, consultations • Monitoring to specifically address socio-economic impact of access road as input into GN decision making on closure • Workforce discipline, environmental effects on socio-economic parameters

11. CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD. Socio-economic component Government of Nunavut Comments • Wellness strategy to be elaborated • Covered under the IIBA • More detail on various elements of human resource development planning • Covered under the IIBA • Note: Comments related to road operations, fuel supplies, hamlet plans, emergency response planning and traditional knowledge are addressed by others

12. CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD. Socio-economic component INAC Comments • Participation of other interested parties in socio-economic monitoring • Need remains to agree on a cooperative mechanism • Monitoring needs to specifically address labour force adjustments in Baker Lake • Human resource inventory, hiring patterns, consultations • Life skills training and other pre employment training to be elaborated and included in socio-economic monitoring • Covered under the IIBA • Monitoring to include examination of hypothesis that overall employment and income are associated with improved socio-economic status • Collaborative monitoring would emphasis community wellness

13. CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD. Socio-economic component Health Canada Comments • Employment targets over time to increase • Covered under the IIBA