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Researchers with the NASA-funded ICESCAPE mission examine melt ponds in the Arctic Ocean in July 2011. The most pressing threat in the Arctic region is climate change, writes NDP MP Lindsay Mathyssen.Photograph courtesy of Flickr/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Opinion

BY NDP MP LINDSAY MATHYSSEN

November 23, 2022

When Canadians say “the True North strong and free,” so many of us believe in what that phrase means, but not necessarily what it takes to keep it that way—and one could argue consecutive federal governments have also forgotten to act to keep it that way.

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