[news] Canada vs. Nunavut for Oil & Gas in the Eastern Arctic?

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Prentice said last week in an interview broadcast on CPAC, the Canadian  
parliamentary channel, that his recently-appointed devolution  
negotiator, Paul Mayer, is not mandated to talk about resources within  
the “offshore seabed.”

Okalik, on the other hand, says legal and historical precedents demand  
that Nunavut get jurisdiction over its internal waters and that Ottawa’s  
current position amounts to Nunavut being “treated like an offshore  
colony rather than an equal member of Confederation.”

  


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