The North and the Great Canadian Lie

The North and the Great Canadian Lie
AP Photo/Jessica Hill

Canada needs to stop pretending that it cares about the North. Decades of false rhetoric has created expectations among those few who do live up North that someone “has their back.” No one does. They're on their own and they have been for generations. We tell the world the North is ours, that we are protecting our sovereignty and our vast mineral wealth. But the truth is we aren't, and those resources are so far from the nearest railhead they may as well be on the moon.

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