With all the ongoing talk about how Canada needs to bolster the security of the Arctic, maybe we could just try completing the last project that was supposed to do that.
The Nanisivik Naval Facility, Harper’s deep-sea port meant to support the AOPS, is still not finished. It has become the white elephant in Canada’s north.
Now a part-time, summer-only maritime gas station, the significantly stripped-back Nanisivik port project is mired in construction delays, cost overruns and serious questions about its long-term viability.
And now, Global News can reveal the construction company building the facility went into receivership a year ago — leaving the Department of National Defence to backtrack on its earlier plans for a long-awaited 2025 opening date.
Good grief! We truly are a nation of broken toys.
I read that Canada is partnering with Australia for Arctic stuff! Hmm, isn’t Oz a bit south of the Arctic?
Oh, it’s more than that. The Trudeau Government guaranteed it’s uselessness by entering into an agreement with the Nunavut government disallowing icebreaking in the area of the base to protect wildlife. Add to that unheated fuel tanks, and you have a window of about four to five weeks per year to use the place.
I’m no genius, but I’d say Trudeau purposefully sabotaged the project.
I’m sure the Inuit will protect us when China and/or Russia come over to take the resources with the US saying sucks to be you.
China will be busy for a while. They’re concentrating on exploiting Norway’s access to the Arctic. They already have an oil rig up in the Barents. They’re next move will be to make the Norwegian economy dependent upon Chinese products. When they are significantly entrenched, they will start making it more costly with the caveat of allowing them greater access into the Arctic to lower costs. And *PRESTO* China is now a “designated” member of the Arctic council.
exactly and always true of chirer. it is *imperative* to understand chinese leadership (they have not has a single DAY of any form of democracy in 5,000 years) always ALWAYS thinks long term.
even ridiculousness as the great wall was a long term project. communism never waivers until it succeeds. long term long term long term. 100,000,000 of their own people dead so what: LONG TERM objective.
l wrote a poli sci research paper predicting chirer is poised to be a world power for the SECOND TIME, for the first time ever. got an A+ and very poignant discussions in the lecture room right after the papers were returned.
nothing since in the 15 years since then has changed my view except we are 15 years closer.
p.s. they will not ‘defeat’ American interests and measures, rather ‘mercuh will fail all on its own.
We are an unserious wannabe-nation that can’t get anything right.
That Arctic base is such a classic Harper half measure. There is one thing that will assert artic sovereignty and it is nuclear submarines, anything else is optics.
You’re right.
And it’s increasingly clear that Harper was the last chance to create a Canada that worked and had ambition and promise.
Harper blew it but also learned hard that Canada wasn’t the vehicle for conservative ideologies.
I think a lot of us have now realized the true measure. In the 90s and early 2000’s we always thought that if we had a proper conservative government then Canada would boom and thrive…but it didn’t. And it brought forth Trudeau and possibly Carney.
It would take decades to undo the damage but most Canadians don’t even see damage to be undone. We are heading towards Argentina status.
I guarandamntee you that the Trump Admin. will build a badazz Arctic base in Greenland faster than your new PM’s financial disclosures are … disclosed.
l sure as shyt hope so. AND they know how NOT to do it, ie building massive tunnels in the pack ice that . . . . . . . . is always moving. so there. that notion discarded, get on with it Donald. time is imperative.
What ice? Al Gore told me it’s all melted and has raised the oceans 6ft!!!
The Trump admin doesn’t have to partner with an Inuit fronted shell company to build anything, just deploy a couple of RoRoS full of seabees and ACOEs.
I’ve had experience with government design contracts. This doesn’t surprise me.
You must be a FN woman … right? Who else gets government contracts?
Mr. Harper has been out of gov’t for 10 years. That’s the marker for how long we can blame the #Libranos for all things #Librano like and the massive debt the #Libranos have left along with a billion unplanted trees the #Libranos promised and an underfunded #Librano military as well as skyrocketing syphilis rates in highly supportive #Librano constituencies.
Arctic related build-o-thon:
#Libranos promise to build 570 of homes in the north, no word on possibly related spiking syphilis rates from #Librano favored contractors and their closest advisors who possibly carry foreign passports.
https://x.com/MarcNixon24/status/1902077786371846613
did a google search:
“In 2023, Canada saw 12,135 cases of infectious syphilis, resulting in a rate of 30.5 cases per 100,000 population, which is 16% lower than the 2022 rate
and 77% HIGHER [caps mine]
than the 2018 rate.” funky . . . the nasty little spirochete still around.
Trudeau is correct,
Canada cannot be a sovereign nation,
without continued US benevolence.
(paraphrase from CTH March 16)
Liberal Party of Canada policies, over decades,
has positioned Canada in this very vulnerable position:
… not an independent, sovereign nation
… rather, totally dependent on the US military, with no thanks or payments
… non-competitive banking & finance sector
… economy based on acquiring goods from other nations for US consumption
… while imposing excessive tariffs on American goods
… and encouraging nationwide/worldwide anti-American sentiment
Hence Trudeau tells Trump,
“then we will cease to exist as a country”.
The only way for Canada to be a sovereign nation,
independent from the United States,
is to drop all climate change initiatives,
turn from all liberal economic rules/regulations,
discontinue most social welfare programs,
invest in a truly patriotic military,
return to heavy industrial production
via inexpensive fossil fuel energy
which is abundantly available.
Canadas future is in serious doubt.
The west’s future is bright.
You didn’t mention that Canada will have to get it’s rights back from the First Nations before we can do any of your good suggestions.
We are a country with a second level of national government.
Not if you don’t even have the stones to get on with separating, what you describe takes bigger than that, and you won’t even do the first little thing.
How did they ever get the AlCan highway built in 19 months?
Oh, I remember…the Yanks built it.
As my Old Man used to say, “They (Canaslda) couldn’t make a plug for a hobby-horse’s arse.”
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“How did they ever get the AlCan highway built in 19 months?”
It was 8 months and it was the US Army Corps of Engineers, not Canadians.
Yes, as I said, the Yanks built it. The first meeting between the US and Canada was in December 41, and although the “completion” was announced in October of the following year, truck traffic wasn’t able to complete the entire journey until May 1943.
But what an incredible feat. You couldn’t even get the environmental approvals for 100 yards of sidewalk nowadays in that length of time.
It’s just the Canadian way. Seems nothing can be built on budget or on time, especially LARGE GOVERNMENT projects. It’s one or the other, or both. If it’s not on time, then it’s over budget too.
Victoria’s Johnson Bridge, double the budget.
Metro Van’s sewage plant, North Van. Triple the budget, contractor walked away.
TM pipeline. Budget quadrupled. Liberal fartcatchers call its completion a “Victory”. Yeah, some victory, handcuffed KM to the point of abandonment, and completed with no schedule or expense considerations.
And now the Fibs want to build a 40 year old dream of “high speed rail” in the Laurentian corridor. Maybe they can buy one of Elon’s magic money machines that has been made redundant!
Dan
If they just send a crew to Finland, they have great rail service over there, electric (over head wires) quiet, and pretty fast (160 kilks one time, and mostly 140+), which is faster than our current service To to Queerbek city.
Canada is a mediocre country full of mediocrities. Our best and brightest head to the US where sucess is still admired and encouraged. Success in Canada is looked down on, as it exposes the mediocrities.
Worries about Arctic sovereignty is a crock of crap. Nobody wants the Arctic and even the pathetic Canadian military could stop anyone from taking it. If anyone sends a war ship into Canadian waters sink it. F18s can do that. I’m not sure I would send the deballed Canadian Navy to do the job. Could be dangerous.
scarp
Their lucky to get those shithawks off the runway, so not very effective against a ship with surface to air defense missiles, and the 35’s are even more troublesome to keep air worthy.
The navy has almost no ships, and none that can really operate in that environment. An obsolete CF18 might get an anti ship missile off, if it were unopposed, what makes you think there would be no opposition? War ships are constantly in our arctic, they are called nuclear submarines.
The dollar numbers mentioned here are a joke.
In the 9+ years the Turd was in power, Canada spent/gave at least 11 billion to foreign countries just for gender shit.
That doesn’t count other foreign aid in the billions.
And that doesn’t include the Ukraine or Gaza or whatever the fck else.
We don’t deserve the Arctic and have never proven or shown it’s a part of the country.
The US should take it.
They run NORAD, they built the DEW line and its time to stop pandering to the children.
pfft.
tried to find out what liberals were doing to ensure foreign aid to ahfricah was effective.
2 years waiting: still no answer.
had to read an editorial: they werent even looking so had no clue.
That article shows that 45 full ship passages were made through the NW Passage in 2024. 45. Meanwhile, around 12,500 ships pass through the Panama Canal in a year.
Why? Ice. Lots of it, most of the year. Even if there’s an open channel there’s the risk of pack ice shifting with the wind and trapping ships. The Warmists have been predicting for decades that it will open up for significant times but that hasn’t happened yet. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/arctic/passage.html
Military airports in that area would be a better deterrent.
Yeah, and planes to put there, sadly we have none.
Long range drones (think Global Hawk) could give you all the surveillance needed but of course we won’t do that. Heck you could even operate them from a civilized airfield farther south. The Navy wants submarines to patrol the arctic, the only place where they would be useless. But none of this will happen because our procurement system is broken, useless and riddled with political interference, corruption and rot. We do have airfields in the North, the FOLs (Inuvik & Iqualuit) where we sent F-18s on NORAD missions to intercept Russian bombers. Guess who paid for that. But we need bigger an permanent. And it will never happen.
On the bright side, no matter who gets Canada, be it the US, China, Russia, whatever, they’ll do a better job of exploiting our resources than we do.
Canada no longer deserves to exist.
// I read that Canada is partnering with Australia for Arctic stuff! Hmm, isn’t Oz a bit south of the Arctic? //
Ottawa is purchasing the Australian-developed technology known as the Jindalee Over-the-Horizon Radar (JORN)
to build its new Arctic Over-the-Horizon Radar system. […]
Now in its fourth decade of service, the high-frequency, sky-wave, over-the-horizon (OTHR) system
is considered the most advanced in the world, providing wide-area surveillance of ships and aircraft out to 3,000 kilometres.
Unlike traditional radars that were limited by line of sight, Australian scientists designed JORN to beam
a high-frequency radio signal skywards towards the ionosphere above the earth’s surface,
which then refracted the signal down to illuminate a target.
The echo from the target then travels by a similar path back to a separate receiver site
and the data received is processed into real-time tracking information —
a capability crucial to monitoring Australia’s vast northern maritime approaches.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/canada-snuck-past-trump-buy-jorn-defence-radar/105069292
Ozzie companies have been exploiting the Canadian arctic since at least the 1990s.
Lord knows we aren’t.