It is quite concerning that they're using soft diplomacy to make large investments in resource companies in the north. It's a good, legal way for them to do that.
My understanding is they've also visited certain communities in the north and have generally been turned away. If they're coming in, giving many more resources and bringing in a lot more funding at a scale larger than what the Canadian government is doing, you have to ask yourself why the communities wouldn't take their money. Why wouldn't they sell to people who are offering more?
As we've seen, they've already purchased a huge stake in a major rare earth minerals mine in the Northwest Territories. The more that happens, the more jeopardy there is to our sovereignty, especially when you consider that this is Inuit and northern indigenous land. There are land claims that belong to these people and that they have sovereignty over. Canada needs to be a good partner there and invest in resources and infrastructure, because if we don't, other people are going to, and China is already showing that.