Canada wants to build up its long-neglected Arctic. The hard question is how

The Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk highway in the Northwest Territories, Canada, on 2 March. Photograph: Cole Burston/AFP/Getty Images

Picture an Arctic territory, marginalized by its own country, almost entirely lacking roads, ports and power sources, but rich in mining potential and suddenly feeling vulnerable to outside threats.

It’s not Greenland; it’s the Canadian Arctic.