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John Crump
Canadian Arctic Resources Committee (CARC)
Suite 200, 7 Hinton Avenue
North Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1Y 4P1
Phone: 613/759-4284 ext. 246
Fax: 613/722-3318
Email: jcrump@carc.org
URL: www.carc.org

An important part of CARC's mandate is delivering timely and relevant information about the forces at work in the Canadian and Circumpolar Arctic regions. As northern regions evolve, they are finding they are dealing with many of the same issues. It is important that the southern based populations of countries like Canada and the U.S. recognize that these "remote" Arctic issues affect them as well.

John Crump is Executive Director of Canadian Arctic Resources Committee (CARC), a 30-year-old public advocacy non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting sustainable development in the Canadian and Circumpolar Arctic regions. CARC has members in all Canadian provinces and territories, most U.S. states, and around the world. CARC has been involved in issues related to pipeline development, aboriginal land claims, land use planning, research on arctic contaminants, environmental assessment and other issues. CARC supports its advocacy work with research based on scientific and indigenous knowledge.

Currently, the organization is fighting to ensure that a proper cumulative effects assessment is carried out in the central Arctic, site of several existing and potential diamond mines and other development; it is working in partnership with indigenous northerners on an international treaty to eliminate persistent organic pollutants. It is also carrying out work to promote the long-term viability of migratory caribou herds, and in 2001 CARC will convene a major international conference to examine the future of the circumpolar region in the face of global warming, and the pressure to open up the Northwest Passage as a commercial transportation route.

Crump holds a B.A. from the School of Journalism and an M.A. from the Institute of Canadian Studies, both of Carleton University. His M.A. research focused on development issues faced by the Innu of Labrador. He was Cabinet Communications Advisor to the Government of the Yukon, and Communications Advisor to the Yukon Government Land Claims Secretariat. During that period he also taught courses in journalism at Yukon College. He worked a journalist for CBC-Whitehorse hosting current affairs and other programs. He was with CBC-Ottawa and spent time in West Africa as a freelance journalist. He has worked as Manager of Policy and Government Relations for the Nunavut Planning Commission and prior to that as Senior Research Associate and Policy Analyst, at the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

He has taught university courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and spoken numerous times on issues related to arctic development, public education, and other matters.

His lecture titles include:

• Building Sustainable Futures in the North
• New Governance Structures in a Post-land Claims Environment
• Evolving Conceptions of Arctic Security: Climate Change, Globalization and Democracy
• Down to Zero: Cultural Survival and the Elimination of Airborne Contaminants

He is interested in speaking to any type of audience through the Visiting Speakers' Program and is generally least available from July-August.