Document obtained by the CBC reveal Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) have been warning Inuit leaders to watch out for ChiCom and Kremlin agents offering their communities infrastructure investment to exploit access to natural resources like minerals or even military targets.

“Foreign interference is a significant threat, primarily from China and then Russia. Both desire access to natural resources in the Arctic, like minerals,” the CSIS report reads, concluding that the agency’s “presence in Canada’s North and Arctic has been limited” and they need to step it up.

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami President Natan Obed says the problem, beyond the one of the CSIS not sharing with him any classified intel on the Xi-Putin Regimes’ efforts to infiltrate the communities he answers to, is that the demand for infrastructure is very much there and leaders may not give a shit as long as the money is green. “There’s still incredible infrastructure deficits in the Canadian Arctic, whether it be for airports, for marine facilities, or for just a network for shipping,” Obed said, also mentioning a lack of housing and roads. “If the Canadian government is not investing in infrastructure development in the Arctic, then it pushes our pursuit for partners in investment into other places,” he continued, while stressing he doesn’t actually want the goons to be lording over his people. “If we are, without our knowledge, entering into spaces where there may be considerations from the federal government for foreign interference, we don’t want to ever get caught up into that.”