How long-awaited ‘transformative investments in infrastructure’ could address civilian and security needs in the Canadian Arctic

The Government of Canada requires a cultural change to break down departmental silos and synchronize investment plans in and with northern governments, peoples, and industry.

Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal is pictured outside of the West Block on Dec. 2. The Arctic and Northern Policy Framework promises to address ‘the need for transformative investments in infrastructure, rather than a remedial approach that only perpetuates a state of crisis,’ which territorial premiers and northern Indigenous leaders have been arguing this for years. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY P. WHITNEY LACKENBAUER

December 8, 2021

Canada’s Arctic and Northern Policy Framework (ANPF), released in 2019, remains almost entirely unrealized. While promising “an opportunity for Arctic and northern people, and their institutions, municipalities, organizations and governments, to come together with the federal government to shape...

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