INTRODUCTION TO THE INQUIRY'S ORIGINS, PROCESS, AND AIMS
CHAPTER 2 - REALIZING A 'NORTHERN' DIMENSION IN CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY
Box 2 "Defining Canada's Northern Identity Among Nations"
Looking Forward
Recommendation 3
CHAPTER 3 - ENTRENCHING CIRCUMPOLAR INTERNATIONALISM: MAKING THE ARCTIC COUNCIL WORK
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 5
Mandate
Recommendation 7
Representative Structures and Process
Recommendation 9
Recommendation 10
Priority Objectives and Activities
Recommendation 12
Funding and Political Support
PART II - ADVANCING CIRCUMPOLAR PRIORITIES: CANADIAN INTERESTS AND GOALS
Reviewing Canada's Arctic "Sovereignty and Security" in a Circumpolar
Context
Continuing Military-Strategic Concerns in the Arctic
Box 6 ``The Balance of Conventional Military Forces in the Arctic Region''
Towards Cooperation on Arctic "Environmental Security"
Table 1 "Assessment of the Radioecological Significance of Various Problems of Operation of the Russian Nuclear Fleet"
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"
Beyond the AEPS
Recommendation 20
Climate Change and the Arctic
Long-Range Pollutants and Health Concerns
Recommendation 23
Biodiversity and Wildlife Management
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"
Coping with Large-Scale Capital-Intensive Development
Investing in Community-Based Development
Promoting Circumpolar Trade and Facilitating Commercial Linkages among
Circumpolar Economies
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"
Involving Northern Regions and Representing Public Interests
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
Canada, Arctic Science and the Role of the Canadian Polar Commission
Box 12 "The Canadian Polar Commission"
Recommendation 37
International Cooperation in Arctic Research
Box 13 "The International Arctic Science Committee"
Promoting Education and Culture Exchange through Circumpolar
Communication
Recommendation 40
PART III - MEETING FUTURE CHALLENGES IN CANADA'S INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC RELATIONS
BILATERAL RELATIONS IN THE CIRCUMPOLAR ARCTIC
A. CANADA-U.S. ARCTIC RELATIONS
The U.S. as an Arctic State
The Case of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Marine Mammals
Deepening Circumpolar Cooperation
B. CANADA-NORDIC ARCTIC RELATIONS
Canada-Denmark/Greenland Relations
Canada-Sweden Relations
Canada-Finland Relations
Canada-Iceland Relations
Conclusion: Nordic Relations within Canadian Foreign Policy
C. BUILDING CANADA-RUSSIA CIRCUMPOLAR PARTNERSHIPS
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"
The Future of Canada's Technical Cooperation Assistance to the
Russian North
CHAPTER 10 - TOWARDS AN EFFECTIVE MULTILATERAL COOPERATION REGIME FOR CIRCUMPOLAR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
PART IV - 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