Military capability is a pretty wide spectrum, almost any NATO nation could single handedly knock down the vast majority of countries in the world that aren’t super powers. The US has a military that largely only exists to sustain itself, it’s far over the top for any real purpose, it was designed to fight another…

OK if you subscribe to that kind of nonsense that’s fine, the rest of the real world will carry on.

Are you high on something? Canada is a G8, NATO and commonwealth country they don’t act as proxy for the US on anything, especially not in the current climate. Your confusing a friendly relationship with a subservient one, Canada have before and will again stand up to the US on things that matter to them, and they…

Russia has to live by the rules same as anyone else, it’s not as if we are going to be having an arctic proxy war, nobody lives on the ice sheets and so any conflict will be the direct kind. And given the US had to have the UK start training it’s troops in Arctic warfare for the last few years because they don’t have…

Considering the sort of science most needing to be done in the Arctic, I don’t think there’ll be any shift in priorities in the immediate future.

Canada is our backyard, not some far-flung corner of the world. Our defense and economic interests are congruent.

Thing is, it is not about isolation. It is about navigating the territory we do have, but not having the hardware to do even that. America doesn’t need 40 icebreakers. 6 are more than enough for rescue patrols, scientific research and paving out arctic lanes. This is also not about competition. It is about…

Probably because the US doesn’t recognize Canada’s sovereign claim to it’s internal waterways in the Arctic and considers the North West Passage an “International Strait”. This is mainly because they can and not because they’re right (something we’re gearing up to hear a lot of up here since the Pumpkin in Chief came…

The Canadian government would actually be ecstatic to hear that news from the US. Unfortunately, for both you and Canada, this is a major departure from current US policy, and is unlikely to change any time soon. Canada considers the Northwest Passage to be internal waters, whereas the United States considers it to be…

while still small relative to canadian or russian claims, the state of alaska has more miles of coastline than the entire contiguous US

Ahhh here comes that good isolationist sentiment. Lol

As a Canadian, I’d be fine with that.

I’m surprised to not see Canada mentioned more in the article.