An ambassador for the region and Indigenous surveillance teams will supplement military hardware
Canada is to open new consulates in Alaska and Greenland, appoint an ambassador for the Arctic and enlist Indigenous communities to carry out surveillance in the area as it bolsters security in its Arctic region. The measures are part of a new Arctic security policy that was announced in Ottawa on Friday by foreign affairs minister Mélanie Joly and defence minister Bill Blair. “The Arctic is no longer a low-tension region,” Joly said. “Canada is at an inflection point in the Arctic.
“We really just need to be clear-eyed about some of their intentions and, how we can be like thinking about their long-term interests and, how we can best protect ours,” Iris Ferguson, US deputy assistant secretary of defence for the Arctic and global resilience told the Center for Strategic and International Studies think-tank on Thursday. Canada in April announced a defence plan called “Our north; strong and free”, which aims to spend $8.1bn over five years with a strong focus on the Arctic.
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