To all faculty members and students:

The Canadian ambassador to China, Mr. Guy Saint-Jacques, will give a lecture on Canada’s Arctic Priorities at OUC on March 18, 2014 (next Tuesday). His lecture will mainly include the following aspects:

-Overview of Canada

-Canada’s Northern Strategy

-Canada’s International Efforts

-Canada’s objectives as Chair of the Arctic Council

-Arctic Economic Council

-Exercising Sovereignty

-Promoting Economic and Social Development

-Protecting the Arctic Environment

-Impact of Climate Change on the Arctic

-Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

-Challenges to Traditional Ways of Life

-Sino-Canadian Arctic Relations

Date and time: 15:00-16:30, March 18, 2014

Place:Lecture Hall of the annex building to OUC’s Xingyuan Administrative Building

Host:Director Dai Hua from OUC’s International Office

We welcome all faculty members and students who are interested in the matter to attend this lecture.

                                                        International Office

                                                      March 13, 2014