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This paper explores Canada's self-identity as a Nordic nation as articulated in and through the recent northern dimension of Canada's foreign and security agenda. This image of Canadian nordicity has become aligned with what is sometimes called the "Inuit vision" of the north. This deployment of Canadian nordicity has both emerged from and facilitated a complex and mutually beneficial relationship between the Inuit of Canada and the Canadian government. This relationship is rooted in, and serves, important domestic considerations, but at the same time, it has important external dimensions that have advanced both Canadian foreign policy goals and the Inuit internationalist agenda over the past decade. Indeed, marking a rhetorical break with the colonial and assimilationist record of the past, the relationship between Canada and the Inuit is now represented as embodying a "new spirit of partnership." This image in particular has worked to lend considerable authority to Canada's voice in the Arctic and has been an important source of credibility and leverage both at home and abroad. It has also served as an important resource in the service of national unity to the extent that Canadians have, by and large, embraced the archetypal Inuit as exemplars of quintessentially "Canadian" values.
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143519
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The defence of Arctic sovereignty has gathered high levels of support from the Canadian population in the past 40 years. However, the relationship between public opinion and decision makers is more ambiguous, in particular that between decisions taken by the governing party and an effect in the general population. This is especially true for foreign policy issues. Hence, this article offers a test to assess whether standing up for Arctic sovereignty translates into concrete political gains for the governing party. We gathered federal party support levels reported in 859 opinion polls conducted from 2006 to 2014 in Canada. By focusing on sovereignty operations held by National Defence Operations NUNALIVUT and NANOOK and aggregating poll results into a “poll of polls,” we found that standing up for Arctic sovereignty is politically profitable in certain circumstances.
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112656
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