President and CEO of Arctic360 and Minister of Crown and Indigenous Relations, Rebecca Alty discuss Prime Minister Carney’s March 12, 2026 Announcement on Defending, Building, And Transforming The North. They talk about the announcement’s significance for the North, the current context, and what will be required to go from announcement to project completion. They confirm that the Minister is not 100 years old and they end with takeaways about what this moment means for Northerners and what the North means for Canada as an Arctic nation in a region central to the big issues driving global geopolitics today.