This is John Batchelor, conversation with Charles Burton. He's at Ottawa, watching the Greenland

Embrolio. And I learned from Charles that the indigenous people who have considerable authority

in Canada are unhappy with what they're observing because there are many families interchanged

between Greenland and Canada.

And because Canada defers to the Inuit and their territory, the Inuit expect

Canada to accommodate their brothers and sisters close by the Greenlanders.

Much more complicated than just NATO and Washington talking or Trump and Routhey.

Here's Charles to explain.

More of this tonight.

I mean, Canada was slow to respond, but did make a response saying that Canada supported

the self-determination of people in Greenland with regard to their

sovereign status. I mean, it is complicated because, as you say, Greenland is a neighbor to Canada,

and there are a lot of co-ethics, you know, the people in Nunavut, the Inuk in Nunavut, have family

connections with people in Greenland.

And so there is a lobby among these people who have an influence politically out of

proportion to their numbers because of Canada's policies of giving a lot of say to indigenous peoples that have been pressuring the government to be more proactive in protecting the status of Greenland.

I think that there's a feeling among indigenous peoples that indigenous peoples are not treated as well, or at least with as much privilege in the United States as opposed to Canada and Denmark.

So, you know, the feeling among the Inuit is that it's a bad idea for the U.S. to assume any kind of sovereignty over what amounts to their people.