{"id":20542,"date":"2025-11-20T20:03:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=20542"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:03:33","slug":"u-s-canada-and-finland-recommit-to-ice-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=20542","title":{"rendered":"U.S., Canada and Finland recommit to ICE Pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    U.S., Canada and Finland recommit to ICE Pact<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday hosted Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Kristen Hillman and Finnish Minister of Economic Affairs Sakari Puisto., at a Ministerial Meeting where all three countries signed a joint statement of intent committing them to doubling-down on their efforts to revitalize their domestic shipbuilding industries and growing their icebreaker fleets.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministerial Meeting is the latest development in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/u-s-canada-and-finland-in-new-polar-icebreaker-ice-pact\/\">Icebreaker Collaboration Effort (ICE) Pact<\/a>, a joint effort between the three nations to strengthen Arctic security.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today, we marked a major milestone in the race to secure the Arctic against our adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>ICE Pact, the historic trilateral partnership between the United States, Canada, and Finland, will power our economies with good jobs, strengthen our collective Arctic defense, and bring\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xT5qADt3vQ\">pic.twitter.com\/xT5qADt3vQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sec_Noem\/status\/1990887454296191405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cToday, we marked a major milestone in the race to secure the Arctic against our adversaries,\u201d said Secretary Noem. \u201cICE Pact, the historic trilateral partnership between the United States, Canada, and Finland, will power our economies with good jobs, strengthen our collective Arctic defense, and bring us one step closer to rebuilding our icebreaker fleets. Under President Trump, we are finally asserting our Arctic dominance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. commitment to the ICE Pact aligns with President Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/42uwRlW\">Executive Order to <\/a>revitalize the U.S. maritime industrial base, and to rebuild America\u2019s icebreaker fleet to enable the Coast Guard to defend U.S. interests in the Arctic.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ambassador Hillman signed the joint statement on behalf of Canada\u2019s Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement, Jo\u00ebl Lightbound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s joint statement of intent is a significant step in strengthening the trilateral partnership between Canada, the U.S. and Finland,\u201d said the Minister. \u201cBy collaborating on the development of world-class icebreakers, we are not only reinforcing our Arctic capabilities but also investing directly in Canada\u2019s shipbuilding sector, supporting skilled jobs, and advancing innovation in critical marine technologies. This partnership ensures Canada is strategically prepared to address emerging Arctic challenges, while showing that our domestic industries and expertise are central to security, economic growth and long-term prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/u-s-canada-and-finland-recommit-to-ice-pact\/\">U.S., Canada and Finland recommit to ICE Pact<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/\">Marine Log<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Nick Blenkey<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/u-s-canada-and-finland-recommit-to-ice-pact\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-canada-and-finland-recommit-to-ice-pact\">Go to marinelog<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S., Canada and Finland recommit to ICE Pact Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday hosted Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Kristen Hillman and Finnish Minister of Economic Affairs Sakari Puisto., at a Ministerial Meeting where all three countries signed a joint statement of intent committing them to doubling-down on their efforts to revitalize their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7047,3126,7048,2597,7049,4693,192,199,7050],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-20542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arctic-security","category-ice-pact","category-icebreaker-collaboration-effort","category-icebreakers","category-kristen-hillman","category-kristi-noem","category-marinelog","category-news","category-sakari-puisto","tag-marinelog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}