Prime Minister Mark Carney has long pushed to “secure” the Arctic, amid threats from China and Russia, Donald Trump’s expansionist rhetoric and the effects of climate change. And all this renewed focus on northern security looms large for people who live there. In our Sunday Documentary, The View from Tuk, Julia Pagel ventures to Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, to find out what conversations residents are having, and what politicians in the south may be missing in all the talk about Inuit Nunangat.
“It is a little bit confusing to Inuit that all of a sudden, those people – who otherwise have been completely ignorant of Inuit and our realities – are imagining they’re going to decide what happens in our homeland,” said ITK President Natan Obed.
Publication Date
September 14, 2025
