iPolitics
By Stephen Van Dine. Published on Dec 21, 2020 1:30pm
'The time is now right for the federal government to put Canada’s role in the Arctic back on our foreign policy agenda.'
A recent debate on a Chinese state-owned company’s interest in acquiring TMAC Resources, a Canadian-based mining company that owns the Hope Bay Project in Canada’s Arctic backyard, has rekindled our existential Northern sovereignty anxiety once more. This time the duel is between Dr. Michael Byers on one side, and retired major-general David Fraser on the other. Byers takes the position that the purchase is no threat to Canadian sovereignty while the retired Major-General argues that it does.