Canada occupies a lot of virtually unoccupied territory and we claim it to be our own, like an old Empire of the past would have done. If we are serious about maintaining the boundaries on our maps, we MUST develop, occupy and maintain territorial settlements. Use it or lose it.
At the same time because of the distances involved it cannot be developed using the model for the lower 800 miles of Canada. That doesn't mean 21st century goods should be unavailable for home and yard. Picking the winning combination should be a short process rather than a long one. A Sat phone plugged into a console and you have (channel) 1080 communication in your own language for all the events going on with the kids who live 'next door' (1,000km) of the hunter with the weather channel and family should the ****ing ski-doo break down once again because Bombardier couldn't afford any R&D for reliability tests. How about some balloon tires like they use in Iceland to, wait for it, drive on the ice where there are no roads.
Citizens in the north don't need government services as much as foreigners. Especially ones that haven't been able to create GHGs to our level.
Take away the Govt employees but leave the information they had access to so the locals can answer their own questions with the minimal of time investment and red-tape. The rest of the month on broadband could be watching the Beverly Hillbillies in full. (as well as any spin-offs or series by the same actors such as Raymond Burr.
For being on the road there are a lot of western series that could be audio by a narrator, or better yet, actors saying the human parts. (both as entertainment and as a teaching tool as in English as a common language for storage of the original information, forms can be had in any language)
