Arctic File Needing Leadership: Experts

Published May 13, 2009

As Arctic issues grow in importance for Canadian lawmakers, some experts think the time has come to gather the numerous departments involved in Canada's northern strategy under a single umbrella.

"The Arctic file keeps getting more and more complicated," says Ken Coates, a history professor at the University of Waterloo and one of the authors of the Donner award-winning book Arctic Front. "These...