The Royal Canadian Air Force has looked at expanding the airbase at Resolute Bay, Nunavut.
The plan is to construct a 3,000-metre paved runway, hangars, fuel depots to support fighter deployments there.
The base could serve as a logistics site for search-and-rescue operations as well.
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