Ahead of the G8 and G20 summits which he's hosting, Prime Minister Stephen Harper did four (so far as I know) media interviews. ON Monday of this week, he spoke to Reuters' David Ljunggren, to Theo Argitis for Bloomberg Television, to Joel-Denis Bellavance of La Presse and to me.
The transcript of my interview is online here.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is scared that “next-to-non existent” job creation and growth in Canada's most important trading partners threatens Canada's otherwise robust economic recovery.
In an exclusive interview with QMI Agency, as he prepares to host this weekend's G8 and G20 summits, Harper voiced his fears about debt crises in Europe and an American economy that could take years to recover.
“This is going to remain a very delicate, a very dangerous situation,” Harper said.
“I think what Canadians really need to understand – I think they do but let me punch it home – how fragile the global recovery really is. And Canada really is an exception where we have strong growth and strong job creation …
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And we squeezed one more story out of that interview:
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Chinese President Hu Jintao meet here in Ottawa Thursday, one of them will be able to talk about the new Arctic icebreaker his country will launch in a couple of years.
It won’t be Harper.
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China is playing for keeps when it comes to vast natural resources that lie under the Arctic Ocean. A top Chinese admiral said earlier this year that, by his reasoning, because one-fifth of the world’s population lives in China, China was entitled to one-fifth of the resources that lie in the Arctic’s international waters.
“The Arctic belongs to all the people around the world as no nation has sovereignty over it,” Rear Admiral Yin Zhuo said in the spring. “China must play an indispensable role in Arctic exploration as we have one-fifth of the world's population.”
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