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by Tiktaalik 1020 days ago
Canada is empty for a good reason. Explore around and you'll see why. Sheer mountain, muskeg and tundra.

Where people live are the places where it's reasonable to live. Everywhere else is misery or impossibility.
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passing_by_and 1020 days ago
The land is owned by the crown. In private hands it would be used productively. It has nothing to do with "misery or impossibility."
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Tiktaalik 1019 days ago
A great many people tried to use crown land in the past and gave up because it was useless bog too remote and not worth it. See: Haida Gwaii Naikoon. Cape Scott colony, and more.

When folks don't live somewhere, there's usually a reason, and it's usually "the land is terrible" not the government is forcing people to not use it.

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