What is the sinister conspiracy that is code-named CanSell, and how does it threaten Canada? The truth is on a micro-cassette that Tom Austen must somehow find before a crucial vote by Canadians on the future of their country. While on a school trip to Gjoa Haven in the high Arctic, tom unexpectedly discovers the micro-cassette might be closer than he thought. Between dog sled races, drum dances and journeys across the tundra, Tom searches for the cassette and learns a valuable lesson from the Inuit about the futility of violence."