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.
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!!