I can talk about the riverbank in my own community. It has been sliding, and we had a major slide 50 years ago. Because of the impacts of climate change, with permafrost across the north and rising water levels, we are seeing, in communities like Tuktoyaktuk, the water advance into the community. Buildings have had to be pulled back from the shoreline.
This year, the water levels have been “unprecedented”, which is the word for 2020. I think the Great Slave Lake, which is one of the largest lakes in Canada, was five feet higher than normal. The Mackenzie River and the Slave River were high too. A lot of our communities are on the rivers—the Hay River, the Mackenzie River and the Slave River—and on the lakes, and these levels are affecting our community infrastructure, our water intake and our sewer systems. I think there's not any community that is unaffected by climate change in the Northwest Territories.