We asked the NWT’s senior envoy to Ottawa: what are we getting? – Cabin Radio
December 10, 2025
Joe Dragon is the NWT’s man in Ottawa. He is paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to “foster strong relationships” with the federal government. How’s that going?
Dragon and NWT Premier RJ Simpson answered our questions on Tuesday, at the end of a year in which the territory’s biggest projects were overlooked by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new Major Projects Office.
The GNWT says Dragon’s salary as senior envoy to Ottawa is in the highest deputy ministers’ pay band, sitting at between $261,000 and $327,000 annually.
