TABLE OF CONTENTS
- CHAIRMAN'S FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION TO THE INQUIRY'S ORIGINS, PROCESS, AND AIMS
- Box 1 "The Circumpolar Region in Profile"
- CHAPTER 1 - THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC COOPERATION:
A NEW ERA AND A CANADIAN AGENDA
- Recommendation 1
CHAPTER 2 - REALIZING A 'NORTHERN' DIMENSION IN CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY
- Learning from the Past
Box 2 "Defining Canada's Northern Identity Among Nations"
Looking Forward
- Recommendation 2
Recommendation 3
CHAPTER 3 - ENTRENCHING CIRCUMPOLAR INTERNATIONALISM: MAKING THE ARCTIC COUNCIL WORK
- Context, Genesis and Establishment
Box 3 "The Growth of International Organizations with Arctic Concerns"
Box 4 "The Arctic Council: From Idea to Inauguration"
Box 5 "Declaration on the Establishment of the Arctic Council"
- Recommendation 4
Recommendation 5
Mandate
- Recommendation 6
Recommendation 7
Representative Structures and Process
- Recommendation 8
Recommendation 9
Recommendation 10
Priority Objectives and Activities
- Recommendation 11
Recommendation 12
Funding and Political Support
- Recommendation 13
PART II - ADVANCING CIRCUMPOLAR PRIORITIES: CANADIAN INTERESTS AND GOALS
- CHAPTER 4 - POST-COLD WAR COOPERATION IN THE ARCTIC: FROM
INTERSTATE CONFLICT TO NEW AGENDAS FOR SECURITY
- Arctic Security in Transition between Past and Future
Reviewing Canada's Arctic "Sovereignty and Security" in a Circumpolar
Context
- Recommendation 14
Continuing Military-Strategic Concerns in the Arctic
Box 6 ``The Balance of Conventional Military Forces in the Arctic Region''
- Recommendation 15
Towards Cooperation on Arctic "Environmental Security"
- Recommendation 16
Table 1 "Assessment of the Radioecological Significance of Various Problems of Operation of the Russian Nuclear Fleet"
- Recommendation 17
Security of Arctic Peoples and Environment
CHAPTER 5 - TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA FOR
PRESERVING THE ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT
Defining Environmentally "Sustainable Development" in a Circumpolar Context
Box 7 "Arctic Sustainable Development Principles"
Box 8 "International Environmental Agreements Relevant to the Arctic"
Global Environmental Issues Affecting the Arctic
The Arctic Environmental Agenda
Towards Multilateral Cooperation: The Arctic Environmental Protection
Strategy (AEPS)
Box 9 "AEPS Objectives and Commitments: Rovaniemi to Inuvik and Beyond"
- Recommendation 18
Beyond the AEPS
- Recommendation 19
Recommendation 20
Climate Change and the Arctic
- Recommendation 21
Long-Range Pollutants and Health Concerns
- Recommendation 22
Recommendation 23
Biodiversity and Wildlife Management
- Recommendation 24
Arctic Environmental Cooperation and the Future
CHAPTER 6 - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR ARCTIC COMMUNITIES
Towards a Framework for Sustainable Economic Development in the Arctic
Box 10 "The Arctic as an International Economic Region"
- Recommendation 25
Coping with Large-Scale Capital-Intensive Development
- Recommendation 26
Investing in Community-Based Development
- Recommendation 27
Promoting Circumpolar Trade and Facilitating Commercial Linkages among
Circumpolar Economies
- Recommendation 28
Recommendation 29
Recommendation 30
CHAPTER 7 - PROMOTING DEMOCRATIC APPROACHES TO CIRCUMPOLAR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, NORTHERN REGIONS, AND PUBLIC-INTEREST ROLES
Supporting Participation by Aboriginal Communities as Circumpolar Actors
Box 11 "Profile of Circumpolar Indigenous Peoples and Organizations"
- Recommendation 31
Involving Northern Regions and Representing Public Interests
- Recommendation 32
Recommendation 33
Recommendation 34
CHAPTER 8 - SUPPORTING SCIENTIFIC, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL COOPERATION IN THE ARCTIC
The Changing Nature of Arctic Science: Towards a Holistic Knowledge
Perspective
- Recommendation 35
Canada, Arctic Science and the Role of the Canadian Polar Commission
Box 12 "The Canadian Polar Commission"
- Recommendation 36
Recommendation 37
International Cooperation in Arctic Research
Box 13 "The International Arctic Science Committee"
- Recommendation 38
Promoting Education and Culture Exchange through Circumpolar
Communication
- Recommendation 39
Recommendation 40
PART III - MEETING FUTURE CHALLENGES IN CANADA'S INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC RELATIONS
- CHAPTER 9 - STRENGTHENING BILATERAL COOPERATION WITH
ARCTIC NEIGHBOURS
BILATERAL RELATIONS IN THE CIRCUMPOLAR ARCTIC
A. CANADA-U.S. ARCTIC RELATIONS
- Chart 1 Comparative Profile of the Arctic Eight
The U.S. as an Arctic State
The Case of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
- Recommendation 41
Marine Mammals
- Recommendation 42
Deepening Circumpolar Cooperation
- Recommendation 43
B. CANADA-NORDIC ARCTIC RELATIONS
- Canada-Norway Relations
- Recommendation 44
Canada-Denmark/Greenland Relations
Canada-Sweden Relations
Canada-Finland Relations
Canada-Iceland Relations
Conclusion: Nordic Relations within Canadian Foreign Policy
- Recommendation 45
C. BUILDING CANADA-RUSSIA CIRCUMPOLAR PARTNERSHIPS
- Approaching Russia Today
- Recommendation 46
The State of Canada-Russia Relations and Northern Cooperation: Retrospect
and Prospect
Box 14 "The 1992 Canada-Russia Agreement on Cooperation in the
Arctic and the North"
- Recommendation 47
The Future of Canada's Technical Cooperation Assistance to the
Russian North
- Recommendation 48
CHAPTER 10 - TOWARDS AN EFFECTIVE MULTILATERAL COOPERATION REGIME FOR CIRCUMPOLAR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Recommendation 49
PART IV - CONCLUSION AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: CIRCUMPOLAR COOPERATION AS A CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY VOCATION
- CONCLUSION AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: CIRCUMPOLAR COOPERATION
AS A CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY VOCATION
REQUEST FOR GOVERNMENT RESPONSE
APPENDIX 1 - List of Witnesses
APPENDIX 2 - List of Witnesses: Meetings and site visits in Whitehorse, Inuvik, Tuktoyaktuk, Yellowknife, Edmonton and Calgary - May 26-31, 1996
APPENDIX 3 - List of Witnesses: Meetings and site visits in Kuujjuag, Iqaluit, Cape Dorset, Resolute Bay and Montreal - May 26-31, 1996
APPENDIX 4 - List of Witnesses: Meetings in Moscow and St. Petersburg, The Russian Federation and Helsinki, Finland - November 3-9, 1996
APPENDIX 5 - List of Witnesses: Meetings in Cambridge, United Kingdom, Oslo and Tromsø, Norway, Stockholm, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark - November 4-8, 1996
APPENDIX 6 - Additional Meetings with Committee Research Staff
APPENDIX 7 - LIST OF SUBMISSIONS