Harper Does Good in Haiti

[JLM]

JLM;1206495]Most of those jobs come under the heading of "the butcher the baker the candlestick maker"and are really only secondary jobs and to exist have to be supported by resource based jobs. There's not much use in having doctors, nurses and engineers hanging out in Inuvik.



There you go, JLM, some real forward thinking. I realize that much has to be done to accomodate an influx of new people but isn't that why we are talking about it here? Any more ideas on how to get the North up and moving so we can offer Haitians a new home? Maybe start a letter writing campaign to Stephen Harper? :smile:

I think we have to take a step back Mowich, reestablishing Haiti and populating our north are each projects of guargantuan proportions on their own and at least in the initial stages I think should be undertaken separately.

 

[Kakato]

If they can run a train between Vladivostock and Moscow year round moving heavy freight we can build a road base and good enough to run rail to the Arctic sea as well.

To be honest I don't think we have a choice but build proper infrastructure up north.

Yellowknife is on the wrong freakin side of the lake to be any good as a staging point much longer for what we need developed.

I'm thinking east of YK and north of hudsons bay in those communitys,we built nunavuts longest road there at 100 kliks(or told it was the longest) and it took a year and 3 huge camps and many guys to build it. As long as you lay down minimum one meter of rock the permafrost underneath will stay frozen so a rail bed could be built.
Churchill could use that port to especially with all the exploration going on north of that as theres bound to be some new mines opening soon.The northern store in Baker Lake was outfitting over 40 remote camps last year.

 

[MHz]

And this is from the latest census you took???

From the number of times I have been asked which way to the North Country in Spanish, zero.

 

[petros]

I'm thinking east of YK and north of hudsons bay in those communitys,we built nunavuts longest road there at 100 kliks(or told it was the longest) and it took a year and 3 huge camps and many guys to build it. As long as you lay down minimum one meter of rock the permafrost underneath will stay frozen so a rail bed could be built.
Churchill could use that port to especially with all the exploration going on north of that as theres bound to be some new mines opening soon.The northern store in Baker Lake was outfitting over 40 remote camps last year.

Start on the hard ground going from Flin Flon To Yellowknife an bounce eastward to Churchill using existing lines and gangue piles along the polar bear line then north east to at least Rankin. There is no shortage of granite or high ground on the shoreline. I'd love to see it done. Then we could have the industry we once did set on cheap land at resource source.