I'll give you some stats on the reality in the north.
For housing in need of repair, the percentage of households that are in core housing need, meaning that they do not live in and cannot access acceptable housing, is 17.4% in NWT. It is 15.8% in Yukon and 38.8% in Nunavut. They are all well above the national average of 13.7%.
The cost of living is much higher for those living in the territories. I have added a table here, but there is one figure that makes it absolutely clear. Nunavut households spend 92% more on food than the Canadian average. Their salaries are a whole lot lower than those of the average Canadian. How do they make ends meet? How can they possibly participate in the industrial developments that are being proposed unless their--