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Canada to lay claim to North Pole amid Arctic resources rush

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Ripclawe

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/09/us-arctic-pole-idUSBRE9B811Y20131209

Canada intends to lay claim to the North Pole as part of a bid to assert control over a large part of the resource-rich Arctic, Foreign Minister John Baird said on Monday.

Baird said Canada had filed a preliminary submission to a special United Nations commission collecting competing claims and would be submitting more data later.

The move could raise tensions with Denmark and Russia, both of which also look set to lay claim to the North Pole on the grounds it lies on a continental shelf they control.

"We have asked our officials and scientists to do additional and necessary work to ensure that a submission for the full extent of the continental shelf in the Arctic includes Canada's claim to the North Pole," Baird told reporters.

Canada, Russia, Denmark, Norway and the United States are all keen to control as much as they can of a region the U.S. Geological Survey says contains 30 percent of the world's undiscovered natural gas and 15 percent of oil.

A Russian submarine planted a flag on the North Pole sea bed in 2007.

"Obtaining international recognition for the outer limits of our continental shelf ... will be vital to the future development of Canada's offshore resources," said Baird.

"Canada is going to fight to assert its sovereignty in the north but I think we will be good neighbors in doing so."

Russia, Canada and Denmark all say an underwater mountain range known as the Lomonosov Ridge, which stretches 1,800 km (1,120 miles) across the pole under the Arctic Sea, is part of their own landmass.

Baird said Canada needed more time to file a final submission to the U.N. commission because it had not had time to fully map the area around the ridge.
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Arkos

Arkos

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Heard this on the news today.

We can not allow Santa Claus to be Canadian and we can not allow him to be Russian.

The only solution is for him to be Danish.
 
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Log4Girlz

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Arkos said:
Heard this on the news today.

We can not allow Santa Claus to be Canadian and we can not allow him to be Russian.

The only solution is for him to be Danish.
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Isn't he Russion in The Guadians? Besides, as delicious as I'd think he'd be as a Danish, I think that's a little absurd.
 
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novenD

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"Canada is going to fight to assert its sovereignty in the north but I think we will be good neighbors in doing so."
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If you had told me this had come from an Onion article making fun of Canada, I would have believed you.
 
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Heshinsi

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novenD said:
If you had told me this had come from an Onion article making fun of Canada, I would have believed you.
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And this is why the rest of the world think we're a bunch of pushovers. We can't even sound intimidating when we're making land claims.
 
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Face it Tiger..

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Notthing good could come of this,

better have docile nation out of all of them keep control.
 
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Chris R

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Why not the pie approach? IE USA gets everything above Alaska, Russia gets the stuff above Russia, same for Canada, ect?
 
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sinxtanx

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Arkos said:
Heard this on the news today.

We can not allow Santa Claus to be Canadian and we can not allow him to be Russian.

The only solution is for him to be Danish.
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It's interesting that Santa himself has not laid any claim whatsoever. What IS that guy doing?
 
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railGUN

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I wanna be one of those native rangers that patrol the northern borders.

For like 2 hours. So I can say I was.

And then never, ever again.
 
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Slavik81

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Erm. Canada laid claim to the North Pole long ago. The only thing that's new is that the competing claims might actually be arbitrated.
 
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Nether!

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Always been interested in arctic sovereignty.
Obviously this is about territory and resources.
Shipping lanes will be a factor, but how long after the North West Passage is accessible year round will the entire arctic ocean be free of ice, negating the need to travel through the Canadian Archipelago altogether?
 
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Parch

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Slavik81 said:
Erm. Canada laid claim to the North Pole long ago. The only thing that's new is that the competing claims might actually be arbitrated.
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Yes. I'm surprised this is even in question. Canada does regular sovereignty patrols to the far north to keep an eye on things. They've been doing this since forever.
 
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Shambles

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You have the NSA surveiling every piece of electronics in the world. We have an old fat man that snoops around your house one night a year.
 
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Pedrito

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As the North Pole is really cold, it should go to the toughest people. So I suggest that each country selects one citizen to go there. They all get naked and the one who can brave the cold the longest wins the Arctic for his/her country. We can call it "The Shiver Games".
 
OverHeat

OverHeat

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Why do I have a feeling Im going to do patrol over there in the next five years ( I fucking hate winter warfare)
 
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Earthstrike

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novenD said:
If you had told me this had come from an Onion article making fun of Canada, I would have believed you.
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Canada's going to have america backing pretty much any and all of it's claims. Mainly because america does not want Russian control of the region, and it would prefer its closest ally to have control of it.

Funny story related to this. George bush had made the mistake of having a nuclear submarine navigate our northern waters and then subsequently apologize for it and promise to always ask for permission when they do so in the future. Although america could easily "crush" canada, it's currently a political impossibility for them to do so. So we have a de facto admission of our sovereignty and, unless the current party in power wants to look like idiots, it's a pretty obvious endgame to just support canadian dominion over our arctic claims.


Edit: When I say america will back pretty much all of canada's arctic claims there is an exception for the region between the yukon and alaska.
 
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Puppet Shadow

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Santa is Canadian, his workshop even has a designated Canadian postal coded:

H0H 0H0

Edit. This address works from anywhere in the world:

Santa Claus
North Pole H0H 0H0
Canada


Done deal.
 
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ponpo

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Good, Canada needs more land. Canadian population density is too high and this additional plot of earth would relieve pressure on all of the sprawling urban centres that dot the country.

Anyway gunland and russia should just give it to Canada then laugh as they launch space missions to harvest asteroids made of platinum and diamond. Enjoy the cold.
 
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SecretMoblin

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Aren't The Maldives supposed to be underwater in a few years?

Why not give it to them?

I'm sure they could throw some killer parties.
 
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Parch

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There's a Canadian Forces Station in Alert, Nunavut on Ellesmere Island. It was a weather station in 1950 and has been permanently manned by the Canadian military since 1958. It's the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world, 508 miles from the north pole.
It's not like this neighborhood is vacant and up for grabs. It's been well established and internationally recognized as Canadian sovereignty.
 
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youngwerther

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Parch said:
There's a Canadian Forces Station in Alert, Nunavut on Ellesmere Island. It was a weather station in 1950 and has been permanently manned by the Canadian military since 1958. It's the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world, 508 miles from the north pole.
It's not like this neighborhood is vacant and up for grabs. It's been well established and internationally recognized as Canadian sovereignty.
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The neighborhood of the North Pole is well established and internationally recognized as Canadian sovereignty because some Canadian guy takes a shit in an igloo once a day at Ellesmere Island?
 
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You Are Viewtiful

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youngwerther said:
The neighborhood of the North Pole is well established and internationally recognized as Canadian sovereignty because some Canadian guy takes a shit in an igloo once a day at Ellesmere Island?
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If we can trick 1 million people into living in Edmonton, we can make 1 million people live in the North Pole. Don't doubt us.
 
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