America's Polar Star, a massive ice breaker ship, is planning on crunching through the ice up north this summer. This only serves as a reminder to Canada that they are far away from actually enforcing them selves in the arctic. Ottawa has stated numerous times that they are serious about pursuing a future in the Arctic, however they have backed down many times from doing so. While that happened the Americans and the Russians poured resources in the Arctic and Russia now has an impressive fleet of nuclear powered ice breakers; America has also started creating a fleet of ice breakers. Canada will have to act soon or otherwise lose the Arctic.
In my opinion the race for the Arctic should be higher up on Ottawa's priority list. We have one meager ice breaker which is almost 50 years old and pales in comparison to the Americans' recently refurbished ice breaker and the Russians' nuclear powered ice breakers. The Arctic could prove and has proven to be a valuable resource.
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