[Ost-news] Selling out sovereignty in orbit and the North

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Selling out sovereignty in orbit and the North  
Jan 22, 2008 04:30 AM  
Michael Byers

Stephen Harper talks a fine game on Arctic sovereignty. He's told Canadians that we need to "use it or lose it." He's publicly berated U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins over the status of the Northwest Passage. He's even promised to build a deepwater dock on northern Baffin Island and ice-strengthened patrol vessels for the Canadian Navy.

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