Canada's Key to Global Power 

Screw free trade Canada needs to charge every ship through the passage the same as it costs going through the Panama Canal

I like that compromise

Nonsense, all of the salt water seas ore international per the law of the seas. How about the straits on Malacca and many other water ways. Can the adjacent countries claim them? There would be little or no trade. This is why not a single country has or will accept this nonsense

I'm a Canadian..... I think only waters completely surrounded by a country, or not attached to the greater oceanic area, should be owned by that country. HOWEVER. The Suez Canal sets a bad example for this. It's completely ocean level waters that one country completely controls and regulates. It costs hundreds of thousands to pass through. So Either the Suez Canal goes public or Canada has just as much right to control the Northern Passage.

@@shperax not every country wants to be used internationally if that was the case lets just dump all our waste and garbage to close to the waters of the countries we don't like cause anyone can use it right joking but thats what you open with allowing any country close to your land with zero regulation. I believe that if it's an island its surrounding waters is theirs and can control if they want to keep it clean and fresh not worrying if other countries will come close and try to exploit it. If they do start using that passage often I hope Canada regulates it properly, indigenous people are important to recognize cause if they happens I hope it doesn't disturb them because history shouldn't repeat itself. Lets be so real if America really tries to fight for it later on in the years its cause they know they can exploit so bad which makes regulation even more of a priority

Russia uses the north east passage, which can be navigated even during winter due to its latitude. Russia also has a fleet of nuclear "Yamal and Rossiya" and non nuclear icebreakers constantly clearing ice for traversing vessels.

Canada is utterly incapable of policing or defending these waters. The country places national defense and security near the bottom of its priorities. Canada is more interested in fighting "climate change" and pushing WOKE politics. Canada is lucky if any other country even nominally acknowledges Canadian sovereignty over these waters. The country is utterly defenceless, and so debt-ridden that it is unable to afford the necessary tools needed to defend its sovereignty in these waters.

Actually a very great idea.

Russia already uses the Northeast Passage... I'd think Canada would want America to go through it not Russia 🙈

🤣Canada 🇨🇦 aayh Dude, just few years ago, Saudi royal mafia had humiliated Canada & blockaded them from thousands of miles away until they submitted to MBS well🤪

yeah that wouldnt happen. if other nations want to use that trade route, we'd simply be ejected from NATO, and they'd simply annex the territory. we are supposed to commit 2.3% of our GDP to military funding for defense purposes. we barely hit half that. and why we risk being ejected from the defense alliance. Many Canadians rightfully say NATO is a bad deal for Canada, and I'd agree with them, however, until we have a competent Naval fleet and a decent secondary air force, we NEED NATO. sure Canada has the 3rd largest fleet of the modern F-35 fighter jets, but the US Navy is #1, and the US Air force is #2. (you think that would be reversed but its not) their combined fleet is over 1700 F-35's Canada has a combined total of 85. and not even enough trained pilots to operate them. Canada can deploy roughly 20% of the fleet with pilots capable of operating them. our Naval vessels are in dire need of repair, with need for over due down time in dry dock for repair and refits too. Canada still neglects the Arctic Sea King helicopter too. a necessary vessel for the cold conditions in the arctic circle of the proposed trade route. It would be nothing for the US to make a move to have Canada expelled from NATO for failing to uphold our fiduciary responsibility for defense spending, followed with annexing the entire trade route starting from Alaska. this proposed trade route, "with a fee" has huge consequential risk under our current military position in standing.

@@dustinherk8124 To hell with NATO and to hell with the USA. We'll just MINE Our Territorial Waters .. for starters. Then we can shut off the Oil to the US and sell it to China for way more than the US pays anyway. The US has lots to lose and while they can threaten to annex us, they should keep one thing in mind. We All AIM way better than any of them. I'm already of the mind that Canada should Build a Wall .. and make Trump pay for it !

@@dustinherk8124 When a rules based order is what Nato nations demand. They would have no other right than to respect Canadas territorial claim You are right. We canadians would be squashed in a matter of weeks if they decided to annex the territory. But that would not enforce the rules based order they have been trying to claim they hold as a true value. So either they would show their hypocrisy or they would respect Canadas borders. There are pros and cons to both sides. It is hard to say how it would go.

@@dustinherk8124 kicking Canada out of NATO and anexing Canadian territory would colapse NATO's reputation and the US,s reputation. It would also cause other NATO members to leave or even colapse NATO allowing Russia to gain political control

@@-Joseph-H- you think. im not saying the two would happen consecutively. but there is a very real chance it could. there already are real geopolitical talks to force us out since 2019. if it happens, we are on our own. and maybe not the US annexing the territory, but there'd be nothing stopping other nations such as Russia, who has a modern history of doing exactly that, for economic gains. same goes for China. I just used US as they are known for long overstaying and occupying other nations. if a nato member attacks a nato member, the rest are supposed to turn against the offending party. and going back to my first comment, the US already over commits its own military forces to aid in our coastal border defenses. to the point they actually have valid reason to demand Canada is removed from Nato, with the rest of the member nations, with our under funding on defense.

It’s all about opportunity, don’t defend it lose it…

@ironhell Canada does defend the Arctic in a variety of ways. And you wonder why people don't trust the U.S. with an attitude like that. "Hey, this 9/11 thing is giving us a great opportunity, let's use it as a pretext to invade Iraq! They're oilfields will be unprotected, now's our chance!" You'd be in for a nasty surprise if you tried that in Canada. Not only does Canada have a highly effective military that always beats the US in war games and the few real wars we've had the previous times you tried to invade us. But also Canada is a well respected member of NATO. What do you think happens if you invade a NATO country? Does Article 5 ring a bell? "If you invade one of us, you invade all of us." Our armed forces patrol the passages and check every ship. We have Coast Guard ice breakers serving all the Inuit communities (my aunt works on one, they provide supplies, search and rescue, and open a path in the ice.) There are Mountie stations throughout. The Inuit form a defense force called the Canadian Rangers. We have maintained the DEW line (Distant Early Warning) to warn the US of ICBMs (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles) coming over the north pole since WWII. And there are bases like Alert and Eureka, and NORAD covers the Arctic airspace. So any incursion would be noticed and followed quickly with mobilization--into our territory that we train in all the time. So don t think this "opportunity" would be waltzing into "undefended" territory.

american should be an example on the definition of hypocrisy. its like them complaining about russia in ukraine while they literally invaded hawaii and took half of their land stolen from natives

@MicaOShea-oe7ir First iam not American lol second it’s undefended if there isn’t anyone there guarding it. Canada will fold second the us actually wants it. Who the hell you kidding, efficient military lmfao

Kind of like Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine. If you sit back like a b**ch and watch your enemies move in then soon everyone will; know that you are weak and next thing you know you are no longer the world leader.@@ironhell813

becouse the usa thinks they can do what they want when they want

Please note that the US has had plans to take by force if necessary the water from the Rockies mountain trench ie British Columbia since at least the 1970's to supply water to California & the South west.

same way alaska is american

Greed

American politics and hegemony. 😡

Get used to it. Climate change is slowly turning your neck of the woods into an important area.

can i ask, why do you chose to live in Nunavut? what’s the reason? there’s so many better places

he was probably born there...@@mt7810

@@mt7810 I have always been fascinated about the Inuits and why they live up here. I am originally from Toronto. It has been such a privilege to serve the community up here as a teacher. There is a lot of potential for people up here, but their past along with current social problems and a lack of education and educators is keeping them behind. The government's hope was always for them to be self sufficient, to have all Inuit teachers teaching Inuits - but to reach that they need educated Inuits who would become teachers. They do not have enough educators to educate the Inuits who are to become teachers. It becomes a honour thing for me now to be able to make as much of an impact up here. To date, in most high school in a grade 12 class of 20 maybe 5 of them graduates if we are lucky. On average, 3 of them goes to the Arctic College and out of those 3, maybe 1 or 2 graduate to become teachers. A school requires at least 8-10 teachers per year. It doesn't add up and they certainly need all the help they can get.

​@@XCHDragox115 I commend you so much. So few people have the heart and dedication to do what you have done. I am also in Toronto and would be interested in doing the same once I have finished my education here. Did you follow a program intended to support indigenous populations? And how much of the native language did you know before travelling to Nunavut?

🤣Canada 🇨🇦 aayh Dude, just few years ago, Saudi royal mafia had humiliated Canada & blockaded them from thousands of miles away until they submitted to MBS well🤪

Yes our government cares about inuits and the north. City people with urban lives.

🤣Canada 🇨🇦 aayh Dude, just few years ago, Saudi royal mafia had humiliated Canada & blockaded them from thousands of miles away until they submitted to MBS well🤪

ARCTIC SURVEILLANCE YEAH YOUR RIGHT!!!! CANADA WILL BE WATCHING HIS OWN INVASION BY THE USA OR RUSSIA.

The Russianshas nucleau powered ice Breakers and floating nucleau power plants .That is now in the Artic.Both Russia and China has up to 20 in plans for construction that .can lay cable up to 10 miles away from worksites for power.To develope any major projects.

I also suspect we'll see a revival of the Kra canal idea across Thailand too...

it's the only thing keeping peace over it right now, both Canada and American "law makers" can't comprehend the idea of one country doing anything with oil alone, and we don't need another afghanistan incident

My guess is those were Russian subs. A Canadian scientist went on a Russian nuclear powered ice breaker in a cooperative expedition and he noticed the Russian maps of the Canadian waters were more detailed than the official Canadian ones. When he talked to the Russians about it they laughed and said they had a lot of submarines during the cold war.

In this one case Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Canada might take a more united stand against the US. Thus the recent resolution of the Hans Island dispute, not coincidentally after Russia invaded Ukraine. These 5 countries are lining up their legal positions in order to have a united front against Russian claims to territorial waters, and the US will probably realize they'll need to join in on that party.

There are Plenty of US subs passing through there every year. It has been going on for decades. I think we should MINE the whole pass and keep EVERYONE out.

@@jschap712 Russia under Putin had made previous claim to the North Pole. Then in April 2021 Putin formally enlarged its claim to the seabed in the Arctic Ocean all the way to Canada's and Greenland's (Denmark's) exclusive zones. A situation where they're claiming Canadian and Danish continental shelf as the Russian continental shelf.

It’ll never get to be controlled by Canada it’ll be American of course… the way Canada treats her own people I dont Think the Canuck deserve to own it anyways.

AND We still have territorial and fishing rights for 200 miles beyond Alert like everywhere else.

And no fing way to enforce it

Battle Narwhals......and Patrol Walrus😂😂

@highendservicesbarrieont8347 honestly if the Yanks don't enforce it the encroachment will be real IRL.

sadly

Yes. CANADA's Resources.

Not if you don’t defend it….

@@ironhell813 so i can cruse thru your back yard, swim in pool etc etc when u are at work and not around to defend it?

Sure Jim, if you can find it… I don’t own a home. My pool is the same as yours the Great Lakes, and you’re free to swim In em anytime you like!

The Harry DeWolf class of ships are designed to patrol the north west passage. They are still being built but a few are all ready in service.

2040? Canada wont even be a country anymore by then.

It wouldn't be navigable then would it 😅

Just send decoy Titanics

Ah0le

This isn't about the US throwing Canada under the bus. It is about denying Russia the same claim on the other side of the arctic.

@jds1275 exactly, which is why I said if Canada re-adjusts there approach they'd probably get US support. That said, even if it were to benefit Russia, the US has no business being over there unless in the event of a war, in which case, these laws wouldn't matter anyways.

Interesting fact. How do you like Dease Nuts?

They're okay. a little under seasoned

Because it's only UK territory on one side?

because it's outside of the UK's land border?

No, they don't. It just isn't on the news. I did military intelligence on the east coast of Canada. The Spanish, Russians and Portuguese all fished Canadian waters without anything being done about it.

Which is why we seriously need to beef up our 3 naval fleets... Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic... Get that Navy base at Cambridge Bay already and the Air Force at Resolute!@@dennisyoung7363

Agreed. Prince Rupert is closer to Asia than any other North American port which is why its growth has exploded as has traffic through Edmonton. The line between Jasper and Edmonton is apparently one of THE busiest railway corridors in all of North America... which I get since it funnels all of CN's traffic from BOTH Vancouver and Prince Rupert through it since the Yellowhead pass is the lowest, flattest route through the Rockies... So much so that the highest point on the entire route is actually EAST of the mountains by 20 minutes at Obed Summit outside of Hinton...

They aren't even close to being the busiest ports in North America. Prince Rupert and Vancouver were also rated the 7th and 2nd LEAST efficient ports in the world last year.

@@ryanmorgan5677 Delusion is the Canadian way. The Canadian health care system should be a national embarrassment and some provinces are paying the US system to accept Canadian patients who think Canada has the best system in the world. Morons.

Which are native Canadians. Yes. I also have to say the people of the country have nothing but respect for their northern Canadians. We support them as we can.

We didn't consider the natives to be equals to other societies, so we thought of taking their land as justifiable. Most of our global society views owning land as: Saying you own the land, and having some people living on that land. It's not necessary for the land to be well developed. If ten people are the only ones living in a 100sq/km area, and they say they are part of a nation that owns that land, then that nation does own that land. There isn't any dispute if Canada owns the northern islands, because some people do live there. It's only when there's an uninhabited island, like between Canada and Greenland, that there is any need for dispute.

OMG: "Empty land is unowned land. If you remember history, this is the same argument we used on Natives when we took their land. So by tradition,"... if you suddenly found more undeveloped land with natives living there, you'd take their land just like when you stole your ENTIRE country?? Reminds me of when Bush proclaimed that "we are not a nation of conquerors". Yeah, sure.

Nobody "took" land from Natives in Canada. That's a stupid Leftist narrative designed to bash Christians for political reasons. There was no such thing as land ownership. The mere concept was completely foreign and baffling to them.

DREAM ON

Why? Because someone drew a line on a paper?

china wants it....

how bout around Alaska??

But Canada is not supposed to upset the empire

See "Montreux Convention "

with great difficulty

for over 2 years..duhhh@@rolfkrajewski4975

Those laws were passed when Canada thought those lands were useless. Those laws will change quick when needed.

probably certain times of the year. plus i would assume they had something on the front of the ship to help break it up a bit. but i cant find anything online about it. So i'm not sure but thats my guess!

They ate the ice

fr

Canada doesn’t care about their indigenous populations. Do some research. I’m a Canadian, it’s appalling how the governments have treated the natives. Canada is nothing like most people believe.

As a Canadian this is completely false. 1996 is the year the last residential school shut down. For most of Canadian history we have been mistreating Indigenous people by deporting them from their native land and attemping to make them throw away their culture. This all being to taught in Canadian in schools

@@bestwumpav2172 thanks for the information. So let's say you guys are less rude to indigenous people than "others"

That's wonderful every successful man or woman has a story on how he/she get to succeed.

yeah investment is the key to sustaining your financial longevity but venturing into any legit investment or business without a proper guidance of an expert can lead to great loss too.

Exactly and many of us don't know where to invest our money so we invest it on wrong place and to the wrong people

​@@edna.ChavisObviously talking about been successful, I know I am blessed if not I wouldn't have met someone who is as spectacular as Ava Kimberly

arm the canoes

Penguins.

TRY being the operative word. It's extremely dangerous and the idea of oil tankers sailing from Alaska to New York City--an oil spill in the besieged arctic environment is just a matter of time. When Canada has put a moratorium on oil exploration in the Arctic to protect it. It's hypocritical because the US shut down the Keystone pipeline--when it was already half built--and the pipeline was extremely safe compared to sailing oil tankers through the most dangerous straits in the world.

I agree 100% as an Albertan. I am no fan of the oil industry however tankers vs pipelines is a no-brainer. Also why I supported TransMountain expansion DESPITE its triple budget over-runs... It's probably going to be the one-last mega-project of the oil age in terms of access lines so get it done now before the market tanks entirely!@@MicaOShea-oe7ir

😂😂😂

NORAD is geared for Air Defense (it’s in the name), not Naval Defense.

I don't think you get it. The Turkish Straits are international water that doesn't mean Turky has lost authority over Istanbul. International Waterway only means the country has authority over military transits but not civilian

It would of course be a little easier to understand if you pronounced "th" as a "th" sound. English has both a "d" sound and a "th" sound.

He isn’t pronouncing it that way on purpose, he’s Dutch.

ice breakers on the way

Already losing control of Canada itself due to the same, why not?

As one of the Canadian Rangers tasked with maintaining sovereignty in Canada's north, I might dispute that!

Canada us focused on the Taiwan Straight. Brilliant.

​@@klondikechrishow do u become a ranger up there?

Its called an accent

They were talking about the history before they built the pipeline, but there is also a new pipeline that will use the same corridor but transport natural gas instead of oil. The final investment decision hasn't been made yet.

He clearly has an accent, it's a mistake

no

hi

Not while Truedough is PM

Non! Québécois!

so you are@@jbqu3142