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Isn't Canada getting a little psycho about the Arctic? Arctic sovereignty? You know... if you had people living there I could see it. But... getting your panties in a knot over arctic ice is.... well... paranoid.
Do you understand what is in the Artic? Vast riches, and oil. So much Natural resources that could really boost the Canadian Economy. Yeah, sorry for being a little psycho.
Every single country is being as Psycho as Canada is about the Artic, 20 years ago everybody diddn't want anything to do with the Artic, except for Canada. Now, everybody wants a piece of it. 20 years ago, Canadians were considered people of the Artic, well the Inuits were but they are also Canadian. Now everybody considers themselves the people of the Artic
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Canada-proper already has vast resources... more oil than you can remove, gold, diamonds, anything and everything. But Canada permits corporations to extract the people's resources at below market rates. ... and no royalty payments like the folks in Alaska get. If there is anything underwater in the arctic, it should be handled according to international law. All I ask for is compliance with International Law as it exists now or as it is determined in the future. But Canada even wants to restrict ship passage. Well, Libya tried to restrict passage in the Gulf of Sidra, and those crazy Americans called them on it.
If there are resources in the Ocean, then all the nations of the world are going to have to agree on how that is handled. And yes, soon we will have to talk about the Moon. There is an American flag on the moon. Does that mean that we can claim the entire rock? Well, we didn't.
I guess we need to develop a supra-nationalism that has teeth.
I am thinking that when the British moved into Canada (and America), that they weren't also claiming the North Pole. So where did this claim come from?
America gave up the Panama Canal because we determined it was not defendable... and it was a Jimmy Carter kind of thing to do.
When the Japanese invaded the Aleutian Islands, we rushed out to defend it. I think that was a stupid thing to do. We should have encouraged the Japanese to send more troops to suffer out there. But at least we did defend that territory.
Somehow, the threat of Canadians demanding tribute for passage in the Arctic Ocean reminds me of the Barbary Pirates... the kind of thing didn't set well with Americans back then and won't sit well with us now.
... and Canada seems to have really gone mental on this thing.
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