Canada’s Sovereignty over Arctic Waters on Thin Ice

For over 300 years, the Northwest Passage between Asia and Europe remained what Pierre Berton called the “Arctic Grail” in his 1988 book by that title. Even by the mid-twentieth century, only a handful of ships had wormed their way through the icy strait, and although heroic, their efforts did little to blaze the way to commercial viability. Ironically for those generations of intrepid explorers, today it seems that global warming, not navigational know-how, may turn their once elusive dream into a major marine highway. And while this may sound alluring after the long wait, for Canada it could prove to be the ultimate test of her tenuous claim to Arctic Sea sovereignty.

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