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.