We just need the infrastructure to support it, and AFAIK most of those uninhabitable places, are very much inhabited by wildlife. Aiming for the population density of a European nation would mean environmental collapse, not to mention what Indigenous communities have to say about it.
As well, many of those places were covered in permafrost which is now melting. The northern regions of Canada are going to change a lot in the future, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it anymore.
We just need the infrastructure to support it, and AFAIK most of those uninhabitable places, are very much inhabited by wildlife. Aiming for the population density of a European nation would mean environmental collapse, not to mention what Indigenous communities have to say about it.
As well, many of those places were covered in permafrost which is now melting. The northern regions of Canada are going to change a lot in the future, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it anymore.