MLAs probe Nunavut’s ‘nation-building’ projects as legislature resumes [Video]

Two Nunavut MLAs asked questions at the Legislative Assembly this week about infrastructure projects that – amid rising tensions between Canada and the U.S. – the territory’s premier has described recently as “nation-building.” 

Speaking on CBC’s The Current alongside his fellow territorial premiers on Thursday, P.J. Akeeagok said Nunavut has potential that it could deliver not only to Canada, but to the world. 

“And it starts with creating these infrastructures so you untap the true potential that’s there,” he said, going on to define a nation-building project as one that “connects people and brings movement.” 

Akeeagok said the Qikiqtarjuaq Deep Sea Port and the Grays Bay Road and Port projects were among the territory’s nation-building projects. As the winter sitting at the Nunavut Legislative Assembly got underway on Thursday, two MLAs had questions about both those projects. 

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