With China exploration in the Arctic, the Canadian army is preparing to confront

More than 3000 km north of the country’s capital, soldiers, ships and armed forces aircraft in Canada, which gathered this week in one of the most remote areas in the country to answer one question: How will they climb a foreign ship who did not see its vision, nor stop.

What if the crew of that ship was near sensitive military sites in the north?

It may seem far. But the smaller vessels routinely operate across the north often without any transformers – largely invisible for other ships at a distance, and do not necessarily see them by satellite systems and monitoring in Canada.

The annual exercise is known as the Nanuk process, and it is assumed special this year with the collision of geopolitical changes: China’s growing ambition in the Arctic, Prime Minister Mark Carney planned to increase the capabilities of the newly recognized army and the value of minerals in the north.

CBC News has the exclusive access to the military guard exercise and the Coast Guard, just as Canada’s traditional opponents showed increasing interest in rich deposits in the north of critical minerals. Not to mention the opening of the shorter new shipping routes between Asia, North America and Europe via the northwestern corridor, as climate change makes an increasing number of ice -free days.

“This will be Russia, increasingly, China.”

“(China) has an ambitious plan to control mainly on many elements of rare land and mining and want to invest in Canadian Arctic.”

These elements and some of the richest deposits in the world are found for critical minerals – copper, nickel, lehium, graphite and cobalt – in the north.

Chinese ships, the mill, by marine

China was closely monitored by the Arctic by the Kenz Guard in Canada.

Earlier this summer, the Air Force Continue to monitor a Chinese research ship When she returned to the Arctic water for the second year in a row.

Data collected by an independent and tracker researcher, Stefan Watkins, shows that a Canadian CP-140 surveillance plane was flying near Xue Long (Dragon) 2 as it left the Bering Strait.

But it was the ice swept, CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier “, which was unambiguously” his way from Japan to Alaska, Watcinz books on the Internet.

In 2024, HMCS Regina was published in a short notice to follow up The same ship in international waters. The Chinese ship is a double purpose, which means that the data that collects it and underwater lines can be used for search or military ends.

The predecessor of this ship made a port of a port in Tuktoyaktuk, NWT in 1999. Although the federal government agreed to enter water into the Canadian Arctic, the visit encouraged concern in national security circles.

“They are not warships in itself, but they are able to take all kinds … the information that of course can be used in the end by future warships,” Rob Hubert said at the Calgaret University Center at Calgary University.

China may now have maps that allow submarines to run across Canadian water.

It is known that both China and Russia use “shadow” or “ghosts” ships, which seem to be a merchant or any other ships, but are actually used for spying or other nefarious activities.

Political geography has changed in the north.

“There was already a renewed interest in the Arctic, not only for the abundance of resources, but the amazing people who call this place to the home,” said PJ Akeeaokk, outgoing Prime Minister in Nonavot.

He made his cause to the Prime Minister, on the pretext that ensuring that the North population has economic prospects and the basic needs meeting the key to the existence of healthy societies, which is in itself to confirm sovereignty over the region.

“You have to really go to the importance of investing in the backbone of our societies, whether it is electrical energy or whether it is (sufficient) homes for people.”

The federal government has set this week only Economic and security corridor in the Arctic In a long list of national importance projects, which can eventually see a great funding commitment and simplifying organizational approvals.

In the military exercise this week, the Coast Guard and HMCS William Hall, one of the latest patrol ships recently launched for the Navy, managed to locate a suspected ship in Cove within just a few hours.

Since this is an exercise in local waters, the navy can mix the ship but the police need to participate in any law enforcement activity. As a result, RCMP officers are sent on board the marine ship on the Rocky Beach commonly with seals in the most amazing months in the Arctic.

I watched CBC News with Mounties approaching a quick coast guard boat and arrested two people playing part of the suspicious interlocutors.

Together, they found that they had a pistol and Russian military intelligence. None of them was real, but the army created such a scenario telling it about the real threat they prepared for.

The dean said: “The first step is to monitor … with the new technology that we have.” Dan Rivier, the leader of the Joint Labor Squad, North, the unit accused of defending the Arctic.

Riveri says he is confident that there is no ship that can enter Canadian water without the government’s knowledge. But the region is very vast, and reaching it is the biggest challenge.

“It is 40 percent of the country’s ground block,” he said, adding that it takes air support, ships, aircraft, individuals and other resources “to do anything here.”

A group of recent defense purchases in Canada will definitely change dynamism.

The backbone of marine monitoring is the CP-140s, some of which dates back to the eighties. It is scheduled to be replaced by P-8 POSEIDON-which is larger, with a significantly developed monitoring system, allowing the Air Force to see more details at longer distances.

Canada has also made a partnership with Australia to develop a new radar system over the Arctic, to replace the cold war era system used to detect missile and marine threats.