John_Browning wrote:
Vigilans wrote:
There is also the issue of the Northwest Passage, between the islands of our Northern Archipelago. The US has seemed keen to prevent Canada maintaining sovereignty of the water between our islands now that it means there are shipping routes.
Depending on how far apart they are, long-standing maritime law might indicate there is international waters between some of them. However, Canada could declare an economic resource zone all around the islands where foreign ships could pass through any international waters but Canada would have exclusive fishing and drilling rights.
That's true. I tend to think that it would benefit the United States more if these waters were rightfully secured by our small but effective navy. I don't think we would have a problem with people passing through, but the implication of not recognizing our sovereignty over what, geographically, constitutes Canadian internal waters is not good. The US isn't the only nation to not recognize it, but it seems to me they are becoming more inclined to support it for continental security. There has been a long history of cooperation between Canada & the US in the Arctic from World War II through the Cold War. Both of my grandfathers were employed working on the DEW (Distant Early Warning) Line up in the Arctic, which was a major cooperative venture
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17 Mar 2011, 6:06 pm
