Canada will increase its presence in the Arctic and open a consulate in Greenland. Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand told Bloomberg about this.
Anand said Canada will increase its presence in the Arctic as US President Donald Trump “stirs up unrest in the region” by threatening to seize Greenland.
“We have no choice but to increase our presence in the Arctic. Security issues in the Arctic are the focus of our attention,” she emphasized.
The minister noted that Canada will open a consulate in Greenland in February 2026 and that this was planned to happen even before the United States actively claimed the island.
On January 5, 2026, US President Donald Trump announced that he wanted to occupy Greenland to ensure national security. The island's government strongly opposes joining the United States.
Also on January 20, US President Donald Trump posted an image on the social network Truth Social in which Canada, Greenland and Venezuela were marked with the US flag. Regarding Canada, Trump has repeatedly stated that the country needs to become the 51st state of the US. He noted that “subsidizing Canada hundreds of billions of dollars a year” is meaningless unless the country becomes an American state.
