Developing Canada's Arctic
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, I talk about the importance of the North and how it is the most important part of Canada, and why we need to move away from our current border alignment with the West, and focus on the North.
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why aren't there flights that go through the north why why why don't we have more development
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up there why don't we have airports why don't we have the basis of the infrastructure up there and
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how and how do we get that uh built for the same reason that uh you articulate that the west
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is the most wicked of our national unity problems i concur it's the first national
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unity problem i identified the capital is in ottawa the capital is in ottawa originally
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because the strategic threat of canada to go back to our genesis and this idea of our borders
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what was the united states in 1867 canada is created as the antithesis to the american project that is
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just a constitutional reality it's particularly in the first paragraphs of the constitution that is why
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all of the major cities and all the major economic activity limb the southern border not because it
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is warm anybody who's been to to winnipeg or ottawa uh at any particular time outside of summer knows
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that it's not we're not there for meteorological reasons we're there because all the forts lined
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the southern border because the americans were the threat all the way to the west the railroad
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went east west and the cities followed and the economic activity followed thereafter and then the
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mythology of of climate as as the reason that we're there because it's warm in the south and not in the
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north and then the idea that the current mythology that the americans are are enduring friend well
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the americans are our friend today but in in my read of things they are just another country and they
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are thinking in their own interests and one day that could turn against us right even in annexation terms
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and and that should be understood including through the north so now we understand the north is opening
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up in a way that was not true over the last 150 years just as china is relevant in a way that was equally
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untrue over the last 150 years when canada has created china is just recovering from the the opium
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war so it's destabilized for the entire modern existence of canada now russia and china are right
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at our borders as i just depicted and so that border alignment that border thinking needs to be