She understands the north, and she understands the challenges.
Our feeling is that the Arctic Council is not so much a foreign group as a group of like-minded people who think about Arctic issues. While they are international, they are very focused on what they are looking at. They are looking at their areas and their peoples in those areas.
Northern peoples overlap. We have huge relationships with Greenland. I have friends who are Inuit in Iqaluit who have relatives in Greenland.
For us it seems a better fit.