Canada's Arctic Strategy #TheArctic
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Canadians have a fleet of Arctic offshore patrol ships that can break through thick ice and break it up, but none of them can operate under the arctic ice cap. In the dead of winter, it s not possible to operate a nuclear sub under the ice cap, which is why Canada is considering buying six new nuclear submersibles that can do exactly that.
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once upon a time it was yeah there was the arctic but with the proliferation of nuclear
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submarines from china from russia and other countries there's a lot of countries that can
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run through the northwest passions of the arctic shipping lanes uncontested so what canada's done
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it's a two-step thing step one they built a fleet of arctic offshore patrol ships brand new six of
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them that can run through four feet or 1.2 meters of ice wow and break it up and especially at this
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time of year this is when the shipping's busiest and you'll see in the canadian armed forces and
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all their social media paul showing a lot of the the navy ships and the personnel in all these
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areas in the arctic because they can get material and personnel and ships and planes throughout the
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arctic safely because in the dead of winter yeah it's it's not possible sometimes nuclear sub or
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the subs that canada is considering buying right which have the capability of operating like a
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nuclear sub and can spend a long time under the arctic ice cap and that's the big decision for
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mark carney and for mcginty and for everyone involved the canadian government is what subs
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they buy because the sooner they get built and sooner on patrol the sooner we can have canadian
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submarines patrolling our waters because right now it's it's all other countries
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