While we wait on the promises of Canada, our land, culture and way of life are washing away beneath our feet

Numerous communities and Indigenous People are affected by climate change across the Northwest Territories, writes PSG Senator Margaret Dawn Anderson.

This photo, taken in 2019, shows a home in the Inuvialuit hamlet, located in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories. That home has since been relocated, writes PSG Senator Margaret Dawn Panigyak Anderson. Photograph courtesy of Francis Anderson

Opinion

BY PSG SEN. MARGARET DAWN ANDERSON

December 12, 2022

My childhood was spent on the land and shores of Tuktuuyaqtuuq (Tuktoyatuk) in the Northwest Territories, the traditional lands of my ancestors and a part of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement, which came into effect on July 25, 1984.

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