Makivik Corporation and the Inuvialuit Development Group

Many Inuit and northern First Nations communities are accessible only by air, so gaining control of that vital link both between northern communities and to the south is an obvious business goal, as was mentioned earlier in the example of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation.

For many years Northerners were served by two competing airlines: Canadian North, owned by the Inuvialiut Development Corporation, of the Northwest Territories and First Air, owned by Makivik Corporation, of Nunavik (both are modern treaty organizations).  In 2019 these airlines merged to form Canadian North. The new airline employs more than 850 people and services communities in Nunavut, Northwest Territories and Nunavik, with links to the south at Edmonton, Ottawa and Montreal.