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Arctic Sovereignty Operation Nanook Set To Launch In Nunavut

Posted on Friday, August 03 at 08:23 by N Say
Brig.-Gen. Chris Whitecross, commander of Joint Task Force North, told CBC News that the military will spend time preparing for various scenarios. For example, it will collaborate with the RCMP on a counter-drug operation on Resolution Island, she said.

"Drugs [would be] coming in by boat going into Resolution Island. There's an airfield on Resolution Island, and from there having the drugs put on to an aircraft and come into Iqaluit," Whitecross said Wednesday. "So we're simulating illegal drugs coming into the country from the coast and going into the North."

Canadian Forces personnel will also be working with the coast guard on a simulated environmental spill and cleanup effort near the Nunavut hamlet of Kimmirut, Whitecross said.

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/08/02/north-nanook.html

I think we should be doing more in the western Arctic. That's where Russia & the USA are after all & they're the countries more likely to try to take over the Arctic. The only country we really have to worry about in the eastern arctic is Denmark & they apparently don't think the Hans Island thing is a really high priotity. -- NSay [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on August 3, 2007]

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  1. by jensonj
    Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:03 pm
    Well, in my opinion its too little too late. PM Harper is not committed to Canadian sovereignty and security. Why, because it might upset the U.S.A., one of the countries that says Canada has no rights to the area. He is dragging his feet and taking as long as possible to react to present threats. Bringing snowballs to a gun fight. If he was truly committed he would be building Arctic Naval ships to be completed in the next six months, training crews now to man them, building Arctic Naval bases and stationing aircraft, electronic surveillance and military personnel as far north as possible to maintain watch over and surveying Canadian territory. These are the actions that Russia and the U.S. understand as being committed and determined.

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    Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.

    Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.

  2. by RPW
    Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:49 am
    <blockquote> he would be building Arctic Naval ships to be completed in the next six months </blockquote> Brian Mulroney was referred to as "the chin that walks like a man" Our PM Harper might well be the mouth that walks like a man, as he is very good at yapping, but not so good at substance.<p>Harper is playing some sort of delaying game.</p>One might be tempted to ask: "why and what for?"<p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
    -Max Planck<br />
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