in the northwest new territories

基本解釋

Trade certification for locksmiths is available, but voluntary, in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
鎖匠行業(yè)認證是可用的，但在新斯科舍省，新不倫瑞克省，薩斯喀徹溫省，阿爾伯塔省，不列顛哥倫比亞省，西北地區(qū)和努納武特地區(qū)是自愿的。

This was the case with the Cree over the massive James Bay hydroelectric dams in northern Quebec, the Innu over the Voisey's Bay nickel mine in Labrador, the Inuit over diamond mines in the Northwest Territories, and the 1999 creation of the new territory of Nunavut, the largest land-claim settlement in Canadian history.
ECONOMIST: Canada
But federal transfers are likely to decline, when the neighbouring Northwest Territories is divided in 1999 and the new Nunavut administration in Canada's eastern Arctic requires start-up funds.
ECONOMIST: Spirit of 1998