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Whereas Canada, as part of the United States-Canada Joint Arctic Leaders’ Statement announced December 20, 2016, has designated all Canadian Arctic waters as indefinitely off limits to future offshore Arctic oil and gas licensing (the moratorium), and that the designation is to be reviewed every five years through a climate and marine science-based life-cycle assessment of Canadian Arctic waters, Indigenous knowledge and the socio-economic effects of developing or further prohibiting the development of Arctic offshore resources;
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And whereas the Governor in Council considers that it is in the national interest of Canada to prohibit any person, including an interest owner of a licence set out in the schedule to this Order, from commencing or continuing any work or activity authorized under the Canada Oil and Gas Operations ActFootnote a on the frontier lands that are situated in Canadian Arctic offshore waters and in respect of which the Minister has administrative responsibility for natural resources, until such time as the moratorium is rescinded;
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