(OTTAWA) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is hosting a second high-level international visitor this week, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who arrives in Canada on Thursday.
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The two men will notably visit a military radar site in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, in what will mark the first visit by a NATO chief to the Canadian Arctic.
Messrs. Trudeau and Stoltenberg will also talk with members of the Canadian Armed Forces as part of Operation NANOOK. They will also meet members of the local community.
Senior Canadian and NATO officials said the visit is meant to highlight the region as a security priority, given Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and climate change issues.
The rapid acceleration of melting in the Arctic means the region is 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 and Newfoundland and Labrador with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose visit was aimed at strengthening ties between the two countries on green energy.