Gov. Gen. Mary Simon is set to visit Greenland, Denmark and Norway amid rising tensions over U.S. threats to the sovereignty of Greenland.
She will be in Norway from Feb. 2 to 4, according to a statement from her office.
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After, Simon will be travelling to Denmark and Greenland from Feb. 4 to Feb. 7, meeting with both Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
While in Greenland, she will open the new Canadian Consulate in Nuuk.
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Simon was an ambassador to Denmark from 1999 to 2001.
Only one Canadian governor general has ever travelled to Greenland: in 1982.
More to come.
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