Canada to open Greenland consulate after Trump’s push to acquire island

OTTAWA: Canada volition soon unfastened a consulate successful Nuuk, the superior of Greenland – the world’s largest land and an autonomous babelike territory successful the Kingdom of Denmark that President Donald Trump has talked astir the U.S. acquiring on with Canada arsenic the 51st state.

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand told CBC News that Canada’s caller diplomatic beingness successful Greenland is "unprecedented successful presumption of expanding our Arctic footprint" and that Canada is playing its "part arsenic a important Arctic state successful a clip wherever the geopolitical situation is volatile."

Having hosted a two-day gathering of G-7 overseas ministers earlier this week, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, successful the Ontario municipality of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Anand was unavailable for an interview. However, her property secretary, Myah Tomasi, told Fox News Digital that the consulate, the gathering of which Canada volition stock with Iceland, volition person a large absorption connected Arctic security, which some Anand and Rubio person "talked extensively" astir done the lens of Canada and the U.S. arsenic "willing partners."

Anand's archetypal travel to unfastened the consulate connected Thursday was canceled due to the fact that of atrocious weather, but she is expected to sojourn the land soon.

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Traditional Greenlandic lodging is seen from the Myggedalen viewpoint connected March 28, 2025 successful Nuuk, Greenland.  (Leon Neal)

On his mode to the G-7 leaders’ acme successful Canada successful June, French President Emmanuel Macron stopped successful Greenland wherever helium said that the Arctic land "is not to beryllium sold, not to beryllium taken," and addressing Greenlanders said that "when a strategical connection is sent to you" – without straight mentioning President Donald Trump’s aspirations – "it’s virtually perceived by the Europeans arsenic targeting a European land."

Last December, the Canadian authorities – nether then-prime curate Justin Trudeau – unveiled an Arctic overseas policy, which included plans to unfastened consulates successful some Nuuk and Anchorage. No day has been acceptable for the Canadian diplomatic ngo successful Alaska’s largest city.

Alex Dalziel, a elder chap with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an Ottawa-based deliberation vessel wherever helium focuses, successful part, connected Arctic information issues, told Fox News Digital that Canada’s determination to unfastened the consulate successful Greenland should not beryllium construed arsenic "a poke successful the eye" of the U.S. aft Trump suspended commercialized talks with Canada past period pursuing an Ontario anti-tariff advertisement featuring erstwhile president Ronald Reagan.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance poses with 2nd woman Usha Vance,  former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and his woman and Secretary of Energy Chris Wright arsenic they circuit the U.S. military's Pituffik Space Base successful Greenland connected March 28, 2025.   (Jim Watson/Pool via Reuters)

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"This is Canada taking the North American Arctic much earnestly and getting immoderate of the governmental and diplomatic pieces successful place," said Dalziel.

"Anything Canada does successful the Arctic to fortify its information has the knock-on effect of strengthening U.S. security."

Last month, Trump announced that 4 companies – 1 each successful the U.S. and Canada, and 2 successful Finland – were selected to plan and physique six Arctic icebreakers.

The U.S. has had a consulate successful Nuuk since 2020, aft the archetypal one, which opened successful 1940 pursuing the Nazi concern of Denmark, closed successful 1953.

But successful advancing its economical interests successful Greenland, Canada volition person an vantage implicit the U.S. "given the connections betwixt the peoples of Greenland and Canada," according to Dalziel.

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Military vas HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen of the Royal Danish Navy patrols adjacent Nuuk, Greenland, Wednesday, March 5, 2025.  (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)

The Inuit comprise astir residents of some Greenland and Nunavut, Canada’s largest and northernmost territory, which shares a borderline of little than a mile with Greenland connected the uninhabited Hans Island – besides known arsenic Tartupaluk successful Greenlandic.

Canada’s Arctic overseas argumentation commits to instrumentality a bound statement betwixt Canada and Denmark regarding the land – and to besides statesman bound negotiations with the U.S. regarding the Beaufort Sea, which is northbound of Alaska and 2 of Canada’s bluish territories.

"There person been overlapping claims betwixt Canada and the U.S.," explained Dalziel astir a decades-long quality implicit a conception of the sea.

"There was immoderate advancement successful the Biden medication to beforehand discussions, but successful the existent discourse I deliberation it’s improbable to marque progress," said Dalziel.

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"Canada and the U.S. person lived with this, arsenic they person with their disagreement implicit the presumption of the Northwest Passage – whether it’s an interior historical waterway arsenic Canada claims, oregon an planetary strait arsenic the U.S. does."