NATO chief visits to Canada’s Far North amid concerns over Russian aggre...

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I'd like to tell a little story about

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why I love to light up or look the colic

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a traditional Inuit Stone lamp a

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ceremony and reminder for NATO's top

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political leader the people who inhabit

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Canada's North have lives and deep roots

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that extend beyond the international

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tensions that brought him there you can

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never forget

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that sovereignty doesn't come through

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soldiers or scientists

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sovereignty comes to the people who've

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lived here for Millennia even still it

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is the fear of a resurgent Russia that

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brought the head of NATO to Cambridge

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Bay I realize the importance you pay in

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the high North in the Arctic and the

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Arctic is important for NATO

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a Russian destroyer in the Black Sea

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firing off a volley of cruise missiles

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at Ukraine exactly the kind of scenario

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NATO is worried about in Canada's

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rapidly thawing Arctic where climate

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change is opening up the Seas and

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stoltenberg taking his case directly to

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Canadians in an op-ed this week the

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shortest path to North America for

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Russian missiles or bombers would be

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over the North Pole this makes norad's

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role vital for North America and for

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NATO there's definitely a message that

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the NATO Secretary General is trying to

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send to Canadians some people might ask

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why now and the why now has everything

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to do with Russia's invasion of Ukraine

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Canada and the U.S are planning to spend

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billions of dollars to modernize

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surveillance and radar stations like

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this NORAD facility but it is long

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resisted having nato in the Arctic that

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is changing because of the invasion of

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Ukraine it means that Canada needs to

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collaborate ever more closely and in new

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ways with our NATO Partners Marie can

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you walk us through what is effectively

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at the root of this reluctance of Canada

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is to have allies help defend that

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portion of the Arctic in a word

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sovereignty most of our closest allies

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don't recognize Canada's claim to the

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Northwest Passage and it's felt that by

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calling on our allies beyond the U.S to

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help defend the region sort of

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undermines Canada's claim to the area

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and behind the scenes NATO allies have

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been pushing Canada to take more

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ownership of Northern defense calling it

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The Northern flank but you've seen

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countries like the UK openly saying how

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much they'd like to work and learn from

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Canada in the North

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all right Marie Brewster and Ottawa

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thank you you're welcome