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Hunting the northern character / Tony Penikett.

by Penikett, Antony, 1945-

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Purich Books, 2017.

Canada, Northern -- Politics and government.

Canada, Northern -- Social conditions.

Canada, Northern -- Environmental conditions.

9780774880008 (hc.)

336 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-311) and index.

Who, what, where? Arctic people and places -- Pawns : the Cold War -- Born in the northern bush : indigenous government -- No settler need apply : the Arctic Council -- What you eat and where you live : poverty in the North -- Knowing yourself : education and health -- Underfoot : resources, renewable and non-renewable -- Arctic security : control or cooperation? -- Hungry ghost : climate change -- Northern residents : a new divide.

World leaders often invoke "the northern character," but what do they mean, exactly? Stereotypes abound, from Duddly Do-Right to Northern Exposure, but these southern perspectives fail to capture northern realities. During decades of service as a legislator, mediator, and negotiator, Tony Penikett witnessed a new northern consciousness grow out of the challenges of the Cold War, climate change, land rights struggles, and the boom and bust of resource megaprojects. His lively account of clashes and accommodations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders not only retraces the footsteps of his hunt for a northern identity but tells the story of an Arctic that the world does not yet know. Tony Penikett spent two years in the House of Commons as chief of staff to federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent, five terms in the Yukon Legislative Assembly and two terms as premier of Yukon Territory.

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