. >> okalik eegeesiak is the president of the qikiqtani inuit association representing the people of canada's high arctic to the local and federal governments. >> it creates jobs, and creates business opportunities, and it will help with community infrastructure, hopefully with government investment. >> but it's not yet clear what development in nunavut will look like, and who will reap the rewards. >> the cost of these local projects will be borne by the local people disproportionately, almost entirely and the benefits will accrue outside the territory. that's always the case with mines. >> political scientest frances abele, has worked with indigenous peoples all over canada for most of her career. >> well it's an old dream in canada that the following would happen. the federal government would encourage natural resource exploitation, that would in turn provide jobs for local people and then there'd be full employment, and northern society would grow. we've been trying execute that model since the 1950's. and...it doesn't work. >> this is not the arctic's first resource boom. the le