Guess we're fucked, USA gonna invade Canada now?
 

TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- Canada's prime minister has begun a three-day trip to the Arctic in an effort to assert sovereignty over the region a week after Russia symbolically staked a claim to the North Pole by sending submarines.


Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is on a three-day trip to the Arctic.

Although Stephen Harper's visit has been planned for months, it has taken on new importance since the Russian subs dived 2½ miles to the Arctic shelf and planted their country's flag in a titanium capsule.

"The Russians sent a submarine to drop a small flag at the bottom of the ocean. We're sending our prime minister to reassert Canadian sovereignty," a senior government official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because his language was undiplomatic.

Five countries -- Canada, Russia, the United States, Norway and Denmark -- are competing to secure subsurface rights to the Arctic seabed. One study by the U.S. Geological Survey estimates the Arctic has as much as 25 percent of the world's undiscovered oil and gas.

Harper, who has pledged to spend billions defending Canada's sovereignty over the Arctic, is expected to announce the location of a planned military deep water port later in the week.

"Our government has an aggressive Arctic agenda," said Dimitri Soudas, the prime minister's spokesman.

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"Economic development -- unleashing the resource-based potential of the North, environmental protection -- protecting the unique Northern environment, national sovereignty -- protecting our land, airspace and territorial waters."

Last month, Harper announced that six to eight new patrol ships will be built to guard the Northwest Passage sea route in the Arctic, which the United States insists does not belong to Canada.

U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins has criticized Harper's promise to defend the Arctic, calling the Northwest Passage "neutral waters."

Harper said last month the deep water port will serve as an operating base for naval ships and also will be used for commercial purposes. He might also announce a military training center in the Arctic.

"Canada has a choice when it comes to defending our sovereignty over the Arctic. We either use it or lose it. And make no mistake, this government intends to use it," Harper said.

The disputed Northwest Passage runs below the North Pole from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Arctic Archipelago.

As global warming melts the passage -- which is navigable only during a slim window in the summer -- the waters are exposing unexplored resources, and becoming an attractive shipping route. Commercial ships can shave off some 2,480 miles from Europe to Asia compared with the current routes through the Panama Canal.

Canada also wants to assert its claim over Hans Island at the entrance to the Northwest Passage.

The half-square-mile rock, one-seventh the size of New York's Central Park, is wedged between Canada's Ellesmere Island and Danish-ruled Greenland, and for more than 20 years has been a subject of unusually bitter exchanges between the two NATO allies.

In 1984, Denmark's minister for Greenland affairs, Tom Hoeyem, caused a stir when he flew in on a chartered helicopter, raised a Danish flag on the island, buried a bottle of brandy at the base of the flagpole and left a note saying: "Welcome to the Danish island."

The dispute erupted again two years ago when former Canadian Defense Minister Bill Graham set foot on the rock while Canadian troops hoisted the Maple Leaf flag.

Denmark sent a letter of protest to Ottawa, while Canadians and Danes took out competing Google ads, each proclaiming sovereignty over the rock 680 miles south of the North Pole.

Some Canadians even called for a boycott of Danish pastries.

Canada and the United States dismissed the Russian flag-planting as legally meaningless.

But Russian researchers also plan to use the dive to help map the Lomonosov ridge, a 1,240-mile underwater mountain range that crosses the polar region. Moscow claims the ridge is an extension of the Eurasian continent, and therefore part of Russia's continental shelf under international law.

The United Nations has rejected Moscow's claim, citing a lack of evidence, but Russia is set to resubmit it in 2009. If recognized, the claim would give Russia control of more than 460,000 square miles, representing almost half of the Arctic seabed

That'll show'em!!

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Already in the works for 2010...

MotherFUCK the North American Union


This August, George Bush, Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe
Calderon will be just 90 minutes from Montreal, in Montebello, Quebec.
They are meeting at the Chateau Montebello, as part of the so-called
"Security and Prosperity Partnership" (aka the "Three Amigos" Summit).

They talk about "security" and "prosperity", but their agenda really
means insecurity and misery for working and oppressed peoples in the
Americas.

In brief, the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP) combines the
destructive neo-liberal policies of the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) with the fear and paranoia of post 9-11 "Homeland
Security" policies. The SPP is firmly rooted within a colonial and
capitalist framework.

The SPP is described by its proponents as a "NAFTA 2.0", and is
promoted and supported by corporations and their lobby groups, like
the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.

A group of 30 corporate executives from the NAFTA countries comprise
the North American Competitiveness Council, which was set up "to fully
incorporate the private sector into the SPP process" (to cite the
SPP's own words). Moreover, because the SPP announces itself as a
"dialogue based on shared values," it is secretive process, subject to
no formal public scrutiny or open debate.

There is no mystery to the SPP agenda: murderous wars and occupations
abroad; border militarization; increased detentions and deportations;
attacks on indigenous peoples, the poor, migrants, and working people;
ecological destruction; mega-projects in the service of corporate
greed; and unfortunately, much more and worse.

The SPP reinforces the idea of "Fortress North America", whereby the
rich and privileged live in gated communities and gentrified cities,
protected by police and security, with easy movement for capital
between borders; for the rest, there's border fences, detention
centers, prisons, surveillance, and increased precarity.


http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15497
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9b8_1184951636&c=1

Russians better be careful or Canada might use that tank they have.

http://soundsofthecinema.blogspirit....pics_96994.jpg

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~afd26/i...adian_navy.jpg

ADG

Interesting...

we need to stop shit now..and separate ties and unions with the usa...draft every one for a few years and we are good

i go with the danish boycott!

What does Muhammad say about ownership rights over the Artic? Maybe it belongs to Saudi Arabia :)

Saudi Arabia has got to play the Muhammad card at the UN. They have a case.

Doesn't matter, it has oil. Clearly it belongs to Bush.. I mean, the US.

That's right. We are going to invade and occupy Cananda.

We plan on renaming Cananda "Northern Montana".

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Alright, fuck it, I CLAIM THE SOUTH POLE you bastards!

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what's the point of naval forces in afganistan? :1orglaugh

:helpme

How fucking fast will that dinky toy boat fly backwards one he opens fire with
that .50 machine gun :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Good thing there are no endangered species in the Arctic that may be impacted significantly by all this hogwash...

Oh... wait...

ohhh boy...4 way arms race!!!

no shit. who knew so much time and effort would be spent under ice

I wonder if they get internet down there

I'm torn... lol

I am Danish and Hans Island belongs to us.

To all Canadians :321GFY

Did you read the thread? 4 countries are claiming ownership

Fuck you and your Danish pastries LOL j/k

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/j...lls/kill1a.gif

(from Friday the 13th Part IV - The Final Chapter lol)

That invasion shouldn't take too long. Don't worry, the US with be nice enough to have a French translation to the writing on the side of our tanks.

Thats over the Arctic Hans Island is a Danish/Canadian dispute and you better watch out we supported Bush in Iraq so he better support us against Canada :winkwink:

OFF TOPIC: FUCK EPASSPORTE :thumbsup

no shit. who knew so much time and effort would be spent under ice

I wonder if they get internet down there

hahaha! Russians just push RED BUTTON!

How is this a bad thing?

its all about the greed, its been basically Canadian soil for along time cause back then nobody wanted a frozen waste land, but now that there is oil under it everyone wants a piece, greedy fuck governments

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this is a joke .. there is nothing up there worth arguing over .. they can have my fucking snow and baby seals .. just a waste of our tax money anyway .. the only reason we would do anything to defend it would to be to keep you yanks happy that we're keeping the 11 organized EU soliders at bay .. what a joke..

What a Great Idea. I hope buying land in New Northern Montana will be cheap.

It really surprises me that people are still interested in spending billions for the chance of getting a few drops of oil. Would a better idea not be to use that money to invest in research and development of alternative energy sources, patent that shit and sell it to all the people when the oil runs dry?

Thanks for the info we'll be very careful now :)

i second that !!!:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I have no problem with a US invasion, if it starts in Toronto and specifically the Air Canada Center... Maybe our wish of getting rid of the Maple Leafs (What kind of a name for a brutal sports team is this anyway, the leafs!!! Be careful, here comes the leafs!!!) will finally be realized.

Fucking greedy countries, that's been Canada's forever.

Just one more thing for us to start a fucking world war over.

Gotta love the Russian line of thinking... Plant a flag on the ocean floor and it's theirs..

lol I guess that means the US owns the moon..

Canada has oil.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh And the other 4 countries are debating if it's true and are planning counter procedures! The world is run by idiots! If Porn Stars ruled the countries, we would all live in heaven!

There is no money in oil

Canada should bulldoze some igloos, move in some settlers and put up a fence.

when was the last time you even went to greenland?

You Danes need to step off



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We will fuck your shit up bad.

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