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Defending Canadian Arctic Sovereignty

Posted on Thursday, April 02 at 08:53 by NAUWATCH

Past Canadian governments have neglected their duty and have failed to enforce its Arctic sovereignty.  As a result, its northern waters have not been adequately protected, patrolled or monitored.  Prime Minister Stephen Harper has made the Arctic a priority and has committed to further defend Canadian sovereignty and protect its interests in the region.  Canada does have an obligation to defend the territorial integrity of its borders and must ensure that its Arctic waterways are also being respected by other nations.
 
The Arctic, with its abundance of untapped oil, gas and mineral resources, has nations jockeying for a bigger piece of the pie.  There could be conflicting claims between Canada, Russia and Denmark, over the Lomonosov Ridge.  Canada maintains a sovereign claim over the Northwest Passage, but the U.S. and other countries insist that it is an international waterway. 

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  1. by avatar NAUWATCH
    Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:26 pm
    Just found this press release

    Apr 02, 2009 15:00 ET
    Government of Canada Launches Arctic Operation

    YELLOWKNIFE, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES--(Marketwire - April 2, 2009) - Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway Peter Gordon MacKay announced today that Canadian Rangers will begin patrols on Ellesmere Island this weekend as part of Operation Nunalivut 2009, the first of three annual sovereignty operations planned this year in the North by the Canadian Forces. Nunalivut, Inuktitut for "land that is ours," focuses on military operations in the High Arctic and will also involve air surveillance patrols and parachute insertions of search and rescue technicians.

    http://www.marketwire.com/press-release ... 70006.html

  2. by Dave Ruston
    Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:43 am
    The Northwest Passage clearly belongs to Canada. All one has to do is look at a map. To those governments of other countries who dispute this, I say, mind your own business, and take a hike! I wish the world wasn`t the way it is, but, given the greed and aggressiveness that exists out there, Canada needs to beef up its military so that we can defend our sovereignty!

  3. by avatar Dr Caleb
    Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:31 am
    "Dave Ruston" said
    Canada needs to beef up its military so that we can defend our sovereignty!



    Dave?!? Did you just call for a bigger Canadian Military?! :rock:

  4. by Fiatlux
    Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:52 pm
    We have to defend our interests in the Arctic, so we can sell them to wealth creating foreign investors.

    Ed Deak.

  5. by RickW
    Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:15 pm
    "Fiatlux" said
    We have to defend our interests in the Arctic, so we can sell them to wealth creating foreign investors.

    Ed Deak.


    Correction needed here, Ed. It wouldn't be "we" as in the entire population of Canada. It would be a much more select "we"......

  6. by Fiatlux
    Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:50 pm
    Of course, the "we" represents our great governments who are talking and making decisions for "us". Where the "us", also means our "wealth creating foreign investors", who are receiving "national treatment", otherwise known as instant citizenship, the minute they step into the country and start buying and ordering governments.

    Ed Deak.

  7. by RickW
    Sat Apr 04, 2009 10:59 pm
    Isn't it "strange" though, how we've gone through an unprecedented bout of prosperity in the last few years, yet don't even have the funds to fix the highways and other infrastructure. I'd like "individualist" and his ilk to explain that -- preferably without using "socialist" or "left-leaning" in his explanation...........

  8. by Brent Swain
    Mon May 04, 2009 9:12 pm
    A simple solution would be to drop submarine nets in Lancaster sound, anchored enough to let a sub surface, but go no further. These should be deep enoughg to not snag ice or surface vessels. The Canadian government could also , taking a page from US excuses on subs, state that we neither confirm nor deny the existence of mines in the NW passage, and suggest that on receiving permission from the Canadian government to pass thru the NW passage , vessels wil be given a recomended safe route thru. This safe route will change from time to time. Only applying for permission will get them the current safe rout thru.
    It is of little use for shipping, as a look at the globe will clearly show that the safest and shortest route thru ,in the absence of ice, is east of Greenland, over the pole, directly to Bearing Strait.
    Brent

  9. by RickW
    Tue May 05, 2009 1:56 am
    That would be actually DOING something to assert independence, instead of just talking about it.........

    Good thought though.



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