Keyword: «local state authority»

This article examines the mechanism of governance over northern (subarctic) territories in Canada and management of local issues within their borders. The author maintains, that the ethnic factor, that is, the presence of indigenous groups, influences the policy of state authorities in the provinces and territories of Canada, which, in its absence, prefer not to apply self-government as such in the Artctic, replacing it with local state authority. The Canadian experience is also of interest in Russian conditions, in the context of ensuring the rights of indigenous peoples and optimizing the mechanisms for exercising local government in the northern territories, in order to ensure its constitutional nature and meaning.