The issues you don’t hear about when politicians go North
Posted September 17, 2019 5:04 am.
In today’s Big Story podcast, Canada’s federal leaders love to visit places like Nunavut. It’s a good photo op. It’s a chance to talk about Reconciliation and make promises to Inuit communities. You can easily make your climate point—either about the severity of the crisis or how badly a carbon tax would hurt.
But what they don’t often come up to talk about is the issues that really matter to the people who live here: Housing. Food. An incredibly unpopular airline merger. Today’s episode of our Lay of the Land series takes us to Iqaluit, where most of us have no idea how much a house costs…
GUEST: Kent Driscoll, APTN
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