Canada will raise concerns about NATO’s approach to Arctic threats at a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Anita Anand said.

“We see infrastructure moving further and further north and the geopolitical environment becoming more and more challenging,” Anand said in an interview with Bloomberg News. “We will have a further discussion about the way in which NATO will be able to take into account emerging threats, including in the Arctic.”

Once considered a low-tension zone, the Arctic is now at the heart of geopolitical tensions as melting ice reshapes sea routes and Russia and China vie for control.

NATO has also expanded in the Arctic, with Finland joining in 2023 and Sweden in 2024. Seven of eight Arctic countries are now part of the alliance and fall under its Article 5

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