Justin Trudeau won Canada’s highest office with a pledge to find a balance between its fossil-fuel-driven economy and a more muscular plan for climate change. Eight years later, it’s still one of his biggest challenges, encapsulated by what’s happening in the Arctic.
The country’s north is potentially rich in untapped resources and lucrative new supply routes that are opening up with warmer temperatures. It’s also burning: residents of Yellowknife, the second-largest city in the northern territories, were evacuated because of encroaching wildfires, another chapter in the worst summer for forest fires on record in Canada.
Taking care of Canadians means trying to solve problems that remote Indigenous communities have been living with for generations — issues such as housing shortages, sky-high food costs, lack of medical resources or inadequate infrastructure. In one of the world’s richest countries, not even clean water is guaranteed in the north.
Too many politicians succumb to the “short-term temptation” to sacrifice the environment to deal with pressing economic concerns, he said. As climate change opens the Arctic to more marine traffic, and potentially lucrative natural resources, the region stands to become a microcosm of the kind of competing interests seen elsewhere.
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