Sounds like Canada is fighting for water AND trade...
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And with global warming making the northwest passage through Canada's Arctic navigable for longer stretches every year, he said we will need a naval capability in the North very soon.
"Within 10 or 15 years the passage could be open year-round," he said. "It has the potential to become a super-highway for shipping between Europe and east Asia."
Exercise Narwhal will cost an estimated $5-million and the logistics of transporting and supporting so many soldiers, sailors and airmen to such an isolated area will be formidable, Col. Pettis said.
"It's going to be a challenge just getting them here," he said. "It's just a few hundred kilometres from Iqaluit, but there aren't any roads. So it's an achievement just getting them where they're supposed to be going."
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http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpos...30-0355a20a272f
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