Canada's new leader announces $4.2 billion Australian radar purchase on visit to Arctic Circle

2 years ago by HellsBelle to c/canada

Canada's new leader has announced a radar purchase from Australia and an expansion of military operations in the Arctic while visiting Canada’s far north in an effort to assert sovereignty over the increasingly contested region.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday announced a radar purchase from Australia and an expansion of military operations in the Arctic while visiting Canada’s far north in an effort to assert sovereignty over the increasingly contested region.

The prime minister’s office said the Canadian $6 billion ($4.2 billion) Over-the-Horizon Radar system will provide early warning radar coverage from the Canada-United States border into the Arctic.

Carney announced the purchase at a military base in the capital of the Inuit-governed territory of Nunavut on his last stop after visiting Paris and London for meetings with leaders there.

The Australian radar system will consist of a series of pillars almost a mile (1.6 kilometers) in length. Officials said that the system would have a smaller footprint than what the similar American system would take up.

TheFeatureCreature 35 points 2 years ago

Good. If Canada wants to keep its northern land then it is going to have to take this more seriously. We live in a world full of thugs that see only weakness.

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HonoredMule 29 points 2 years ago

Man, he's really hitting the ground running, and every step is fire. A couple weeks ago I was begging for Canada's leadership to shut down U.S. negotiations until Dumpster acknowledged our sovereignty and repudiated his threats against it. And Trudeau was handling things pretty well, but no way he'd go that far.

Carney did it in on day 2. ✊

I think we might have found the only leader in the Western world that can outpace the orange clown.

Addendum: I first broached that "demand acknowledgement" move over a month ago.

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TheFeatureCreature 17 points 2 years ago

Macron of France has really been doing a good job lately as well with pushing for Europe to become a new world superpower - both economically and militarily.

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jonne 6 points 2 years ago

Hoping this is the first step of Australia trying to get out of AUKUS as well. Ask France if they still want to build the original subs they ordered.

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crazyminner -16 points 2 years ago

Wtf are you talking about, this sucks. imagine if he put those billions into housing or food for those in need. Would do a lot better than more fucking bullshit to exploit/covet the resources of this land for some capitalists to benefit from.

4.2 Billion could make a lot of homes and feed a lot of people.

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HonoredMule 14 points 2 years ago

I'll take homelessness over being conquered, thank you just the same.

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crazyminner -18 points 2 years ago

Radar ain't gonna do shit.

Also, the places there, putting the radar, no one lives there. It's just resources.

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Mouselemming 18 points 2 years ago

It's your back door and Trump has practically been inviting Putin to come on through.

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Ceedoestrees 7 points 2 years ago

This goes to show how many Canadians don't know the Russians have been testing our northern borders for decades. Part of Trump's plan in threatening our country and laying down tariffs is to help destabilize us for the Russians. Our joint efforts have protected the north out of mutual concern, but since America can no longer be trusted - we need to build our own defences, fast.

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Lemmyoutofhere 2 points 2 years ago

You really are ignorant.

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MyMotherIsAHamster 10 points 2 years ago

If you don't see the importance of defending our sovereignty right now, then I'm not sure what world you're living in.

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Thepotholeman 4 points 2 years ago

Wahhhhhhh stfu. We're on the brink of the USA invading us over bullshit that is comparable to nazi fucking Germany and you're complaining about housing right now? If we even want to survive to make decisions for ourselves we're going to have to first lick this goddamn fascist country from below first. THEN we can focus on first world shit. We must sign a defensive pact with the EU or France or UK. There's no sugar coating it, we need to be prepared to fight back and fight back hard against these facist fucks.

Maybe they think they can just walk in and be greeted with open arms, but we're sure to stab them in the backs when it's best. What a goddamn shame that 80 years of the most peaceful time in human history is coming to an end because people couldn't be bothered about history. This is a divergence of species here, we are seeing in real time those who are unable to think critically, and those who can, seperate from one another. And we better win that fight

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Lemmyoutofhere 4 points 2 years ago

None of that matters if we are no longer a country.

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wirebeads 12 points 2 years ago

This is amazing news to be honest.

With the recent uptick in new people signing up for the military, it’s also good news.

What I would ideally love to see happening here is Canada has a 2 year military enlistment for people aged 18 (or there about) to be a part of the military and grow it.

This would be similar to Italy (I think) in that we actively contribute to our own military instead of relying on other countries.

This doesn’t just mean front line military either. This could be using post secondary education for things such as IT, drone, pilots, and in this case radar detection.

We need to rebuild our military and not just in a rush, but over the long haul.

We’ve been too nice for too long to an orange Russian puppet south of us.

No Russian orange cunt muppet is going to tell me I’m not Canadian!!

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