581...Our Home And Freezing Land

Randy Boswell, Canwest News Services, informs us that Stephen Harper isn't kidding when he says that we are going to assert our sovereignty over the Arctic.

Glad that is settled.

The sitting government's ongoing high profile promotion of the Arctic file seems to indicate that Prime Minister Stephen Harper sees polar politics as a part of a winning strategy in the next election. The new report being reported on by Canwest summarizes concrete action in the four main areas of the government's northern strategy.

The four areas are sovereignty, social and economic development, the environment and governance reform. These are key areas especially with the rapidly retreating sea ice playing a huge factor.

As important as the Canadian electorate is, the real people that Mr. Prime Minister has to get to buy in to our Arctic strategy are the governments of Denmark, Norway, Russia and the States.

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396...Thanks For Clearing That Up, Mr. Cannon

Randy Boswell writes in this morning's Saskatoon Star-Phoenix that Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has declared that we, we being Canada, are an Arctic superpower. Sorry, Arctic S U P E R P O W E R. Y'have to say these things really, really, really loud or no one listens.

He goes on to natter about how our superiority and blah, blah, blah will reach a consensus via the use of the United Nations and stuff such as etc. He then goes on to point out that there are five nations that border the Arctic, Canada, Russia, the U.S., Denmark and Norway, and we certainly are in the top five and that makes us an Arctic superpower. Er, S U P E R P O W E R.

Glad that is done.

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