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Joël Plouffe, research fellow at the Center for Interuniversity Research on the International Relations of Canada and Québec.
Canada’s prime minster Stephen Harper wrapped up a six-day tour to the country’s Far North earlier this week.
Marked with announcements, photo opportunities and speeches lauding Canada’s Arctic stature and know-how, Harper’s summer trips to the Arctic have become somewhat of an annual tradition.
- But how much of substance comes out of these trips?
- How much is about building Canada’s ‘Arctic brand’ both at home and abroad?
- What do these trips tell us about the government’s shifting Arctic priorities?
To find out more, Eye on the Arctic’s Eilís Quinn spoke with Arctic expert Joël Plouffe, a research fellow at the Center for Interuniversity Research on the International Relations of Canada and Québec at the National School of Public Administration in Montreal:
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