Nunavut depends on gravel runways to connect it to the outside world, and road links between Nunavut’s communities do not exist, making them heavily dependent on military-built airports handed down from the federal to the territorial government.
A 2014 report tabled at the legislative assembly this spring outlines about half a billion dollars’ worth of work that needs to be done to bring the territory’s airports up to current safety standards and meet future needs of residents of the territory.