Nunavik, the region of Quebec north of the 55th parallel and primarily above the tree line, is more than 23 times the size of Massachusetts. Yet the region has only 11,000, mostly Inuit, permanent residents, spread across fourteen municipalities with no roads between them, and with a consequently very high cost of living. These ‘arctic realities’, states the Nunavik Commission’s March 2001 report on recommendations for self-government, make Nunavik’s political, social, and economic concerns quite different from those of the rest of the province.See Spotlight
