Caribbean annexation not a priority for Canada
Saturday, April 17, 2004
MONTREAL, Canada: Canadian Foreign Affairs
Minister Bill Graham poured cold water Thursday on the prospect of Canada
being linked with the Turks and Caicos Islands, CanWest News Service reports.
A political union with the Turks and Caicos is not a priority for the Martin
government, Graham told the Montreal Gazette's editorial board.
"Trying to find an institutional framework into which it would fit would be
very complicated," he said. The group of
about 40 islands, of which eight are inhabited by a population of slightly
less than 20,000, are an extension of the Bahamas chain and considered the
last largely unspoiled and underdeveloped part of the Caribbean.
Annexation talk heated up recently after Prime Minister Paul Martin invited
the islands' chief minister, Michael Misik, to Ottawa to discuss closer
relations with Canada.
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