Have you spent the retiring decennium believe that Canada is nothing more than our well-disposed , innocent neighbour to the compass north ? dependable — that ’s what they wanted you to think . In world , Canada has yield the past 10 years of its life and $ 200 million dollars in taxpayer money to file the ultimate title : over 1 million square miles of Arctic seafloor that , yes , admit the North Pole .
Canadian imperialists scientist have been working both in lab and on ice camps off the northern shores of Ellesmere Island in an effort to map out the Arctic seafloor , part of which it will be put down claim to ( under the awesomely nominate Convention on the Law of the Sea ) follow Friday at the latest . The decade - long report necessitated the manipulation of both helicopter and airplanes as well as unmanned , remote - controlled submarines that spent days at a fourth dimension under the bootleg water ’ glacial surface .
According toCBC News , “ countries are tolerate to claim additional ocean floor if they can show their continental ledge extends beyond the economic zone . ”And as Rob Huebert , an arctic expert at the University of Calgary , told CBC News , an submarine mess range called the Lomonosov Ridge would indeed give Canada geologic justification for a title that stretches past the North Pole . But just because Canada has understanding to make the claim does n’t mean it necessarily will ; in the ending , it ’s all up towhether or not Canadian functionary call up Santa ’s workshop is worth the trouble :
Maybe it ’s merely not deserving it . peradventure we said , ‘ You know what , for the sake of international peace and stableness , it ’s not authoritative . We ’ll only do our skill up to that and that will be the basis of our claim . ’ [ But ] it means we did n’t go as far as we could .
Of course , it could still take another five years to corroborate the science on Canada ’s claim and another 15 after that to even arrive to a final decision . Though while it appears Canada will not essay any major intersection with Russian or US territory ( keep conflicts with those countries to a minimum ) there has yet to be any word from the diabetic slaveowner with the most to suffer — a one Mr. Nicholas “ Santa ” Claus . rent the war on Christmas commence . [ CBC News ]
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