Arctic Sovereignty
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For what it is worth
I decided this morning that I would try to extend my coverage of my commentary on air travel (and who knows maybe pick up a reader or two) and fired off this email to my MP, my MLA, the Prime Minister, several cabinet ministers, Senator Adams, and the leaders of the Liberal and NDP parties.
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So you want my vote do you?
Apparently there is an election going on. Or two. Who knew? I have to confess that I'm not much of a political animal. I find it all off-putting. Party politics that is. I've long believed that the political party system is the biggest impediment to democracy that exists. Party politics have devolved into this apparatus
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Er, I feel safer, more sovereign and strangely poorer already.
An interesting article appeared on CBC’s news site the other day. Apparently the Canadian Government is buy several Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, to patrol the Arctic. Now I’m not quite sure what their purpose will be, the article seems to be saying that they will be taking the place of Aurora
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Of ships and sovereignty
Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in Nanisivik yesterday, to announce that Nanisivik has been chosen to be the new deep water port to service the new Arctic patrol fleet. The choice of Nanisivik as the port is the only logical one for the government to make. For one thing, it already exists. Nanisivik has been