>>519234058 (OP)
As a bigger version of Alaska, certainly
There's an endless frontier to conquer yet
As a hub for office workers it only really has a reason to exist in the context of French as no city in Canada can otherwise withstand comparison to San Francisco or New York or even Chicago and the murder rate of the latter is a feature, not a bug, but at least Canadians have hockey to express their socially-repressed frustrations, eh?