Canada's Northern Strategy : good intentions & some mistakes
The federal government, under pressure from within and without to clarify its policy on the Arctic, unveiled “Canada’s Northern Strategy” this week.
Prominent in the presentation, which includes a new website,www.northernstrategy.gc.ca, was a map labelled “Canada’s North.” Few southerners would have noticed, though omitted northerners soon did, that while dozens of small, mostly Inuit communities in the three territories of Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut were carefully noted on the map, some 20 such in northern Quebec (Nunavik) and Labrador (Nunatsiavut) were missing.
