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Let's be honest, what is Canada doing with all that land though?
In my experience, using it as a dumping ground for anti-social alcoholics
Why would you say that about Edmonton?
Resource extraction. Lots of mining, oil further west, logging everywhere south of the arctic circle
Lovingly taking care of it is what I'm reading here.
"BWAHAHAHAHA! And then they said that the earth isn't for me to ruin and extract every scrap from so I can buy more private islands! Can you believe that nonsense?"
-Richfuck Ownerson
Pretty much. White people didn't move up there en mass because there was no farmland. That doesn't mean we don't show up when there's something of actual intrinsic value, though. Like the diamonds around Yellowknife, which is the one thing in the North you could call a city.
Up on the arctic coast it's like the Europeans never arrived, if you imagine they developed rifles and skidoos independently.
Vast quantities of peat moss!
It's full of bugs and terrible soil, also looks bigger than it is due to map distortions
That's a globe on the image, no?
Don't forget no growing season. That's the real reason white people never showed up in force.
Mostly nothing. Canada got it because nobody else wanted it.
Hopefully nothing. Hopefully they continue to fuck off and let nature exist unraped up there.
Too late, plastic rain.