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She says it would provide reliable electrical power and stable access to the internet.

Maybe try to give a sense for people who live in the South, this just seems like a no-brainer.

We have all of this-

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in the South.

Yeah, it's, I think it's very Canadian, and it's a bit of a, an unfortunate, uh, frontier mentality that we have had to look at the Arctic as very complicated, and as very challenging, and also not justifying large investments.

So really, it's a Canadian flaw, there's no other way to say it, uh, that compounds to the fact that Canada has the second-largest Arctic border in the world, and yet, um, we don't leverage that strength.

A Canadian flaw, the belief that perhaps the Canadian Arctic is just too far, or its conditions too difficult to invest in, but it simply isn't the case.

We've done extensive studies looking at ar- other Arctic nations.

We've looked at Sweden, we've looked at Finland, we've looked at Norway, Russia.

And what that revealed is very much that those nations invested in their Arctic infrastructure, first of all, decades ago in the '70s, in the '80s, in the '90s, and also way past and well into the Arctic Circle, which is more north even than what the Kivalliq Hydro Fiber Link is proposing.

If it isn't too difficult for our northern neighbors, it shouldn't be too difficult for Canada, something we've heard from our guests again and again all season.

There's been starts and stops over the last, you know, 125 years.

We haven't got it right.

You look at what they've done in their Arctic, in the high Arctic in Norway, it's just absolutely incredible.

You cannot unsee that.

Compared to Russia in particular, even Greenland and certainly Alaska, we have not been innovative.

We've just thought, "Well, there's no population.

We don't, you know, we don't have the taxation.

We, we can't invest in infrastructure." Not true.

The good news is Canada's under-investment in the North is starting to shift.