Canada's defence minister calls the US–Greenland deal 'encouraging'

National Defence Minister David McGuinty calls the United States' deal to boost its military presence in Greenland 'encouraging.' The arrangement splits presence from sovereignty: Washington gets the expanded military footprint, Denmark keeps control of the island. One word of approval is a verdict on a bargain between two other governments rather than a policy Canada has signed up to, and 'encouraging' is the sort of adjective that leaves the specifics for later.