On 30 May 2019 the Canadian Studies Center hosted five representatives, part of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program, to engage in a round table discussion on search and rescue in the North America Arctic. U.S. Department of State guests included Lieutenant Colonel Arthur R. Jordan, Search and Rescue, Royal Canadian Air Force; Michael Kendall, Nunavut Emergency Management Division, Government of Nunavut; Dr. Peter Kikkert, St. Francis Xavier University; Dr. Whitney Lackenbauer, Canada Research Chair in the Study of the Canadian North and Professor in the School for the Study of Canada at Trent University; and Dennis Stavrou, Iqaluit Health Services, Government of Nunavut.
