Nunavut Premier Peter Taptuna is surrounded by media during the Council of Federation meetings in Edmonton on July 19, 2017. A total of 72 candidates in Nunavut's general election will be nervously watching the returns in Monday's balloting, but the territory's sitting premier won't be one of them. Peter Taptuna became the first premier in the young territory's history to voluntarily step aside after a single term. "I'm 2,300 kilometres away from home," said Taptuna, whose commute from the capital of Iqaluit to his house in Kugluktuk takes two days. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson