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Canada's Foreign Minister Cool Over Potential Link With Turks & Caicos

by Amanda Banks, Tax-News.com, London

23 April 2004

Comments by the Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham have indicated that Canada’s annexation of the Turks & Caicos islands is an unlikely prospect, according to reports this week.

The last thirty years has seen the idea of Canada acquiring its ‘place in the sun’ resurface several times, with the latest attempt being championed by Canadian Conservative MP Peter Goldring, who recently organized a cross-party committee to examine the possibility of the jurisdiction becoming Canada’s ‘eleventh province’.

However, according to an editorial piece in the Montreal Gazette, Graham argued that the institutional framework of such an arrangement would be “very complicated”.

Nevertheless, the concept would appear to have gained considerable support in some quarters, as indicated by a unanimous vote in Nova Scotia inviting the Turks & Caicos to join the province if it became a part of Canada.

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