Lot of that water becomes land during the winter. You’d hope that the people of Nunavut, if anyone, would vote with concern for things like climate change affecting polar bears (which live, as it happens, exclusively in Nunavut.)

Mind you, the real point was just to include all the islands inhabited mostly by Inuit, since the point of the creation of Nunavut in the first place was to give the Inuit a voice when previously they were drowned out as a minority part of the NWT. It’s the “good kind” of gerrymandering, where a distinct population that has a clear geographic boundary gets its own representation.

>which live, as it happens, exclusively in Nunavut

Clearly you've never been to Churchill Manitoba.

Land area for Nunavut appear to be 1,877,787 km², which would still make it larger than the areas it is compared to in the article, but still far smaller than Greenland, which is right next to it.