🇨🇦 Ottawa’s Arctic vacuum invites everyone else in

Sharpest irony first: while Canada lectures the world about reconciliation and rules-based order, the real Arctic conversation is happening through an Inuit body spanning Alaska, Greenland, Canada and even Chukotka, representing 180,000 people, because Ottawa still can’t project serious sovereignty in its own North. As reported, the Inuit Circumpolar Council is gathering in Iqaluit amid Trump’s Greenland annexation chatter, Russia’s war, militarization, and the usual climate sermonizing.

And what has the Trudeau era left behind in response. More global forum tourism, more NGO language about self-determination, more moral preening at the UN and the International Maritime Organization while Canada’s Arctic remains underbuilt, underdefended and strategically porous. If the federal state refuses to act like a sovereign power, others will happily fill the vacuum, whether Washington, Moscow, Brussels or every Davos-brained institution that sees the North as a managed international zone instead of Canadian territory. A country that won’t defend its frontier eventually gets a lecture about who it belongs to.

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