Canadian Forces Complete Largest Northern Operation

DND/Canadian Forces ^ | 2007-08-17 | (press release)

[Clive]

News Release

Canadian Forces Complete Largest Northern Operation

Canada COM - NR #07.004 - August 17, 2007

IQALUIT, NUNAVUT – The Canadian Forces today completed Operation NANOOK 07, its largest operation to date in the North. Held in the Baffin Island Coastal and Hudson Strait areas 7-17 August, the operation involved approximately 600 soldiers, sailors, and air force personnel along with the Canadian Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Operation NANOOK 07 was designed to protect and defend Canadian sovereignty in Canada’s North while enhancing inter-agency coordination and communication. This was achieved through two exercise scenarios: Canadian Forces response to a request from the RCMP for assistance with a drug interdiction event; and, Canadian Forces response to a request from the Canadian Coast Guard for assistance with an environmental protection event.

“The Canadian Forces have a significant role to play in supporting other government departments in the North, asserting our sovereignty, and providing assistance to our citizens,” said Brigadier-General Chris Whitecross, Commander of Joint Task Force (North). “Operation NANOOK 07 has provided us with valuable experience so that we are better able to fulfil this role and protect Canadian sovereignty.”

Canada Command is the Canadian Forces organization responsible for the conduct of all routine and contingency domestic operations. Joint Task Force North is the Canadian Forces organization responsible for the conduct of routine and contingency operations in Canada’s North, and reports to the Commander of Canada Command.

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Note to Editors:

Images of Operation NANOOK 07 are available on the Canadian Forces Image Gallery website.

[Clive]

4 Aug 2007 - HMCS CORNER BROOK

HMCS CORNER BROOK on arctic patrol during OP Nanook sails past an Iceberg. Operation NANOOK 07 is a Canada Command sovereignty operation taking place in the Baffin Island Coastal and the Hudson Strait areas from 7 to 17 August 2007. During this operation, Joint Task Force (North) is participating in an exercise designed to train the Headquarters in the conduct of domestic operations in support of other government departments in its area of responsibility.

Photo by MCpl Blake Rodgers, Formation Imaging Services Halifax, Nova Scotia

[Clive]

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[cgbg]

protect Canadian sovereignty

Didn't they already give away the northern third of the country in the name of political correctness?

Surely another group can generate a claim for most of the rest of the country.

[AntiKev]

That’s okay, at least we still control all of our territory. You guys are giving yours to the Mexicans without putting up a fight.

I’m sick and tired of the UNINFORMED Canada bashing here on FR.

[Clive]

Actually, I don't see Reply 4 as Canada bashing.

I read cgbg's reply as a reference to the aboriginal land claims settlements that are giving aboriginals effective sovereignty over huge tracts of territory.

With respect, IMO that was fair comment.

[hershey]

We worry about you up there in the Great White North. That’s affection and hey, soon we’ll all be One Happy Hemisphere, courtesy of the CFR and pals. Ahem, you won’t be controlling all of your territory if they have anything to say about it. And I believe they’re holding a meeting to plot the next move in Canada next week. (At some point they’ll inform the locals they’ve given away Canada’s sovereignty. Or maybe not.)

[AntiKev]

Clive, although I agree with you there, I still see his post as Canada bashing, along with many other of our FRiends here in many of your threads. It bothers me that due to years of neglect and socialism from our “natural governing party” that we have essentially become the butt of a series of jokes from not only the Americans.

The land claims fiasco is a result of our “natural governing party” kowtowing to a small minority of the population to the detriment of the majority in order to cling to power. My personal solution to the problem would be to get these people integrated into mainstream society. Treat them like any other religious or cultural group. We already have freedom of expression and association as enumerated in the Charter (however flawed it may be). Why do THESE people need special treatment that actually hinders their development as a society?

Sorry, I’ll stop, I’m getting WAY off topic. To try and drag this back on topic...

...I have many friends in the Canadian Forces. One is a combat medic stationed out West, he was here in Germany for two weeks last month for training before he heads to Afghanistan in February. I know many of the reservists in the Windsor Regiment and the Essex & Kent Scottish. Some have volunteered to go over, and come back safely. Because of my personal connections to the military (I’m still a glider instructor with the Air Cadet program) I take it very personally when these “holier-than-thou” Americans deride our military accomplishments and exercises. I understand completely where some of the European disdain for the Americans come from.

[fanfan]

[demshateGod]

There was no derision of Canadian forces. It was just pointed out that Canada is full of goofy PC, socialists. Obviously there are some good people in your land but if you see the disdain the Euros have for us has even remotely justified, you’re not one of them.

[-YYZ-]

A drug interdiction scenario in the Baffin Island area? Oooo-kay. Where would they be smugling the drugs from - Santa’s workshop? :)

[AntiKev]

There wasn’t any in this thread, but there has been in a series of threads in the recent past and I’m sick of it.

As for the second half of your comment: You’re either with us or against us, right? Well I will tell you right now, this war will NOT be won the way you guys are fighting it. And everyone here knows that. You’re losing the war on the inside too and it’s just a matter of time before you glide over the precipice and it’s too late. Sometimes you Americans can NOT see the forest for the trees. That I agree with the Euros on. Don’t get me wrong, land of the free, home of the brave and all that stuff, but you’re losing it.

It is a poor reflection on the state of affairs when someone like me feels much safer walking around the streets of Berlin or Munich than I would in DC or Houston (to be fair, Toronto and Vancouver belong on the second half of that list too).

[cgbg]

I wasn't bashing all of Canada.

Alberta is a great place.

Your politicians in Ottawa, though, are a bunch of self-righteous PC-fanatic blowhards.

They are our Democratic Party on steroids.

I will acknowledge that many "average Canadians" ridicule their pols--but they keep electing them.

[AntiKev]

You obviously haven’t been following PM Stephen Harper’s government too closely then.

[Candor7]

In all truth, a batallion sized exercise in the NOrth ( 600 men) is hardly indicative of securing Canada's North. The Russians could move in 10 thousand soldiers in 72 hours.

That is the sad reality of it, and I am a Canadian. We have to face the truth before things get any better.

We need a very rapid expansion to the Canadian Military.

And we need it yesterday.

[Catholic Canadian]

I’m sick and tired of the UNINFORMED Canada bashing here on FR.

I don't see how that person was 'Canada bashing'. The poster was speaking truthfully.

[cgbg]

So has Mr. Harper:

--Denounced the global warming scam for what it is?

--Demanded the return of Canadian sovereignty over the northern "native" claims and attacked affirmative action, quotas etal in all of their ugly manifestations?

--Called for an end to bi-lingualism in Quebec?

--Pointed out the hypocrisy of leftist Canadians attacking America's unfairness toward illegal immigrants while having stringent immigration policies of its own?

No? Thought so--a Democrat on steroids.