Scramble for the Arctic
China Daily | Updated: 2009-08-20 07:51
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Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper (third from left) and cabinet members eat seal meat in Iqaluit, Nunavut, on Tuesday. Reuters |
IQALUIT, Nunavut: Prime Minister Stephen Harper launched a tour to assert Canada's Arctic sovereignty claims on Tuesday, saying the government was not ignoring the vast but sparsely populated region's economic ills.
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