Posted on 08/14/2007 11:05:43 AM PDT by Dan Calabrese
Someone in the Obama campaign needs to get on this. It may soon be time for the United States to go to war with Canada.
Ever the international chest-puffer, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is making noise about its determination to defend its “natural sovereignty” in the waters of the Arctic Ocean.
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Ok that writer is an idiot. He has his facts all wrong.
(South Park showtune)
Is Harper the President of Canada? /Obama sarcasm
The moon is ours then.
Everytime someone is Canada looks at the moon, they have to pay us, $1.
How about them apples Pierre!
I agree. This is moronic analysis.
Harper, a chest puffer? What drug is this writer on?
The issue between the U.S. and Canada is over the Northwest Passage, which isn't used much for commercial shipping, but may if temps keep warming. The U.S. (and most countries) regard it as a strait with right of international passage. Canada regards it as internal waters. It's a dispute between allies and I predict it'll eventually be worked out.
That's different from Russia's attempt to claim ownership over international ocean bed in the Arctic Ocean. And there's no real dispute over Canada's right to beef up its far northern defenses, which are pretty much nonexistent at present.
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