What could Nunavut’s $400-million Iqaluit airport pay for?

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The estimated cost for the new Iqaluit airport terminal could pay for:

• 850 elevators to allow universal access to City Council meetings;

• 4,530 well appointed, wheelchair accessible, 20 passenger, rapid transit buses;

• 68,000,000 free cab rides for local elders to visit their dearly departed in the new Apex graveyard;

• 1,360,000,000 water outage-boil water advisory door knob hangers to warn residents when water main repair work is underway;

• 3,400,000,000 blue recycling bags;

• 4,533,333 stray animal spay-neuter operations;

• flying in 82,324,450 kilograms of perishable food;

• 113,333 imported cedar parking walkway posts or 850,000 “easy as 1-2-3” reverse angle parking signs

• 5,230,760 monthly GBs of data for visitors, students and small businesses under free, city-wide WiFi;

• 1,837,837 deep scale dental cleanings;

• 425 manicured walking trails, like the one stretching 800 feet from the old graveyard towards Apex;

• 48.6 municipal water treatment plants;

• 246,376,801 litres of gasoline at Iqaluit pump prices, 326,923,070 at Ottawa pump prices; and,

• the Nunavut Minister of Economic Development and Transportation’s annual base salary until November 15, 3757 AD.

(Name withheld by request)
Iqaluit

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