Hows the northwest passage conflict gonna go down?

I hope not.

I doubt anyone will be going to war over it anytime soon. War isn’t very popular, let alone here in Canada. We’re peacekeepers, not land grabbers.

As a Canadian I believe the waters that lie within our borders or within a certain distance from the border belong to us and thus we should be free to control its usage. It may need to be defended or monitored depending on the environmental impact using it as a major route might cause.

However the case is not so clear cut as this makes it seem. Some of the route lies in American and Russian territory, and I do believe these people have the right to use the waters as well. After all, what good is a trade passage if you don’t allow anyone else to trade using it!

That said, somebody needs to step up and manage it, especially when it’s in an area that is subjected to a lot of changes year after year. I believe Canada should be these guardians.

If you are talking about the recent Russian Bomber that Defence Minister Peter MacKay sent CF-18’s to intercept I’m quite sure that they weren’t actually in Canadian airspace yet, they were headed that way though. But regardless of that, I agree that the Russian are definitely trying to shove there way into the North. As is the United States.

I have a feeling that Russian and the United States will do what ever they want up there and here in Canada we will cry out at the injustice of our impotency.

Side Note: The war in Afghanistan is just that a war, not a peacekeeping mission. We certainly used to focus on peacekeeping, but not currently.

It has already been resolved based on international conventions, the problem is that some countries do not want to follow the rules now that there’s profit to be made. I’m sure that they’ll come up with some sort of solution for it though, it’s worth renting out but not worth dying for.