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The Canadian government has purchased a strategically located aircraft hangar in Inuvik, N.W.T., for $8.6 million β€” a move that's being met with relief by northerners and experts on Arctic security who were alarmed by foreign interest in the facility.

"I think it's the best idea the government of Canada has had in a long time," said Clarence Wood, Inuvik's mayor.

The 21,000-square-foot hangar, which went up for sale two years ago, was previously leased by the Department of National Defence, a long-standing arrangement that ended in 2021 when the department cancelled its lease. The government reportedly came under pressure from the U.S. to buy the facility after it went up for sale, because of apparent Russian and Chinese interest in the site.

Former Nunavut senator Dennis Patterson, long an advocate for better Arctic security, told CBC that during his time on the Senate, he was frustrated by the lack of attention paid to the issue. He pointed to a study of it by a Senate committee that involved a visit to Inuvik, crediting that as something that helped Canada "wake up" to the strategic significance of the hangar.

"I've been shouting into the wilderness on this issue," he said.

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[–] sparky57@mastodon.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@girlfreddy ok let me look back. i may have a weak argument . i was responding to your post about you feeling canada needs arm(s) twisting from USA to spend more on military . how much of our military purchases in USA are really helping Ukraine? how much is syphoned off to the Netanyahu regime? how much to paramilitaries in Colombia and Bolivia? Remember,LaPaz ? the general was caught. my opinion is we need fund our own needs before others' vain quests.

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I never said anything about more spending on military. I simply stated I was pissed at our gov'ts failure to see what could happen if they failed to renew a lease on the only northern hanger of size Canada has. It was stupid and short-sighted at best. At worst is seems to be another effect of the silo issues we have between the feds and CSIS.

[–] sparky57@mastodon.social 2 points 3 months ago

@girlfreddy ok thats much more clear. i am with you on that. I sit here in what's left standing of a NORAD air base and up the road from what was a Pinetree Line Station. Sure, things have changed and become more portable, but we would be sadly unprepared ; not only in a military threat, but also in a weather or other related catastrophe. we would be blind and deaf . we cant place responsibility on the big telcos. our interesrs wouls conflict. wemust keep infrastructure