Senate report calls on Ottawa to fix ‘neglected’ Arctic | CBC News
Canada’s Northern regions have been neglected, overlooked, and
passed by for far too long. And it’s time for Canada to “wake up.”
passed by for far too long. And it’s time for Canada to “wake up.”
That
was the message out of the Senate on Wednesday morning as its special
committee on the Arctic presented a 139-page report which, in a shotgun
approach, outlined several issues plaguing Northerners, and called on
Ottawa to fix them once and for all.
The report, titled Northern Lights: A Wake-up Call For the Future of Canada, was
a year in the making. It highlights everything from infrastructure
gaps, including the lack of broadband internet, to how Arctic policy is
being developed by “well-intentioned but ignorant” southern bureaucrats —
as Nunavut Senator Dennis Patterson put it, who chaired the Senate’s
special committee on the Arctic.