Former deputy chief of the defence staff Mark Norman said Canada should immediately offer to build a NATO Arctic Command headquarters in Iqaluit

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Canada is offering to contribute military assets to a multilateral force being proposed by Germany and Britain to boost NATO’s presence in Greenland, government sources said.

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One official said that Prime Minister Mark Carney raised with allies the issue of reinforcing the Arctic, including Greenland, when he was in Europe last week. “We welcome the German and British plan and are actively involved in talks with NATO and our allies,” the official said.

Bloomberg reported on Sunday that European countries, led by Germany, are preparing a plan aimed at showing President Donald Trump that the continent is serious about Arctic security.

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Trump has said repeatedly that the U.S. needs to own Greenland to prevent Russia or China from occupying it in the future.

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