Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (Photo: The Canadian Press)
Ottawa — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week receives a second high-level international visitor, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, who arrives in Canada on Thursday.
The two men will notably visit a military radar site in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, marking the first visit by a NATO chief to the Canadian Arctic.
Messrs. Trudeau and Stoltenberg will also be speaking to Canadian Forces personnel as part of Operation NANOOK. You will also meet members of the local community.
Senior Canadian and NATO officials said the visit was intended to highlight the region as a security priority amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and climate change issues.
The rapid acceleration of melting in the Arctic makes the region more accessible to allies, but also to enemies.
Jens Stoltenberg’s last visit to Canada was in 2019, but Trudeau recently met him at the NATO summit in Madrid in late June.
Earlier this week, the Prime Minister was in Toronto, Newfoundland and Labrador with Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose visit aimed to strengthen ties between the two countries on green energy.
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