Small military base would at least serve 'optics' purpose, a prominent Inuvialuit leader says.
Duane Smith, chair and CEO of the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, tells The House about what the government needs to do to protect Canadian sovereignty in the far north.
The federal government, meanwhile, says it is committed to ensuring its sovereignty in Canada's Arctic through investments in new patrol vessels and modernizing North American Aerospace Defence Command . "What this policy, and quite frankly, the relationship that we've built over the past number of years in the Crown-Inuit partnership [shows] is [that] sovereignty in the North passes through the people who live there and who have lived there for millennia," Trudeau said last month.Conservatives have accused the federal government of not going far enough in committing resources to securing the North.
Smith said that costs for the Inuvik airstrip expansion were expected to go up because of things like the cost of fuel.
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