Anita Anand

We're also having a meeting of the A7, the Arctic Seven countries after the NATO foreign ministers meet.

And I'm very much looking forward to speaking about the necessity of cooperation in defending and protecting the Arctic region.

We, Canada, opened a consulate in Nuuk, Greenland in February to stand strongly with Greenland and Denmark in their sovereignty and territorial integrity.

but really protecting and defending the Arctic.

And finally, I will say that we are also here to express our solidarity in the short and the long term with Ukraine.

Canada has put on the table $25.5 billion in multiple forms of support for Ukraine military support.

humanitarian, economic, financial support.

And we are one of the world's largest per capita donors to Ukraine to date.

We've trained over 47,000 members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

We have an initiative to bring the Ukrainian children home from Russia, where they are being indoctrinated after having been stolen from their families.

We will be holding a summit for the return of Ukrainian children in Toronto

on September 28th and 29th to follow up on the summit that we held last week in Brussels.

Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Anand.

When we say valuable, I mean, I just want to give you an idea of how valuable.

Okay.

And honestly, this doesn't speak well of the kind of reading that I've been doing.

But wait for wait.

It's interesting.

In the 1600s, nutmeg was more valuable than cocaine is today.

Let that sit with you for a second.