In first interview, Canada’s envoy to Greenland says new post seeks ‘concrete’ gains
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The diplomat Canada has posted to Greenland says the new consulate should lead to “concrete” gains for Canadians, while locals urge Ottawa to expand existing trade and cultural ties with the Danish territory.
“This just kicks things into a new phase, a more intensive phase, being on the ground and having presence,” said Julie Crôteau, Canada’s acting consul in Greenland’s capital Nuuk.
She gave The Canadian Press her first media interview since taking on the job last November.
“Working together to find common solutions to a lot of the challenges, and building jointly on opportunities that are available in the northern, Arctic context — especially in the world as it is these days — I think that will be a very, very big success,” she said.
Crôteau will be in Nuuk until this summer — Global Affairs Canada is calling it a one-person “micro mission” — after more than four years of working on Arctic topics inside the foreign service.
Her main job lately has been to navigate the logistics of launching a consulate and establishing key contacts across government, business and Inuit sectors to advise her colleagues in Copenhagen and Ottawa on local nuances and the best points of contact.
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Defence Minister David McGuinty says the federal government is giving a big boost to the munitions industry to build up the domestic supply of heavy artillery shells.
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