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Canada is now one year into their two-year chairman ship of the Arctic Council.
Canada assumed its leadership role with an ambitious plan focused on developing the North for northerners. And for the first time, an Inuk, Canada’s now-environment minister Leona Aglukkaq, was made chair of the international forum.
But there has been some criticism that Canada’s leadership is too focused on issues in the North American Arctic and that it’s let tensions between Russia and the west over Ukraine seep into the council’s work.
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Source: Radio Canada International
