Justin Trudeau's Big Trip To Nunavut, And All Of The Things He Didn't Say A Word About

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ARCTIC BAY—By the time Justin Trudeau landed in Arctic Bay this past Aug. 1, he had exchanged the perfect skinny business suit and tie he wore in Iqaluit that morning for a more suitable costume. Clad instead in a pair of jeans and a puffy Patagonia-brand vest slung over a grey sweatshirt, the prime minister had transformed himself from a man of politics into a man of outdoor adventure travel, friend of the conservationist and ally of Indigenous people.

And he was ready to use the small Qikiqtani-region hamlet, population about 860, as a backdrop for the message he’d flown north to convey. His message is this: by moving ahead on two new marine protected areas in the Arctic, his Liberal government has kept promises made to two constituencies: the southern-based parks and wilderness lobby and the Inuit of the High Arctic and North Baffin.

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Another phrase Trudeau did not mention is “Arctic policy framework.” That’s the new Arctic policy that’s supposed to replace the Stephen Harper government’s 2009 Northern Strategy and 2010 Statement on Canada’s Arctic Foreign Policy. This past February, Carolyn Bennett, the minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, told the Senate Special Committee on the Arctic that the Arctic policy framework would likely be done by June. But the Trudeau government has yet to release it. John Higginbotham, a former high-ranking civil servant at Global Affairs Canada and a senior fellow at Carleton University, published a blistering op-ed piece about that in the Globe and Mail on Aug. 4.

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He also said the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory at Eureka, known as PEARL, could close down in September when its funding runs out. “He’ll go pose for photos and hug northerners, but when he gets back to Ottawa and behind closed doors, Trudeau is working for the big polluters and corporations that take advantage of Iqaluit families,” Singh said.

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https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/trudeau-uses-nunavut-to-sell-reconciliation-conservation-as-a-package-deal/

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1. Trudeau has been crisscrossing the country all summer

He's trying to win an election that he hasn't even called yet for October by making major spending announcements all over the country using taxpayer dollars to do it. Because an election hasn't been called, he has the Royal Canadian Air Force flying him everywhere which is still allowed because he's still in charge. For someone who ran as being a friend of the environment, he sure isn't showing leadership with this colossal waste of fuel and its production of greenhouse gases.