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Canada’s new Arctic policy could be done by June, minister says

Carolyn Bennett, the minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, told the Senate Special Committee on the Arctic last week she hopes the Liberal government’s long-awaited Arctic policy framework can be released by this June, according to Nunatsiaq News.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared in December 2016 that his government would develop the new Arctic policy—but although they’re getting to look at an early draft, northern governments and Indigenous organizations are still waiting for its completion.

When done, it would replace the 2009 Northern Strategy document and the 2010 Statement on Canada’s Arctic Foreign Policy, both created by Stephen Harper’s Conservative government.

The new Arctic policy framework is supposed to guide the Canadian government’s Arctic activities until 2030.

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