ARCTIC MARITIME DOMAIN AWARENESS 22 / Canadian Government Executive // Summer 2023 BY PIERRE LEBLANC ARCTIC Reprinted with permission, Vanguard 2023, https://vanguardcanada.com Time to Increase For too long, the Canadian Arctic has not been benefitting from the attention it deserves. Yet recent events and long-term trends call for an increased security focus to the region. The geopolitical shift caused by the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the realisation that China, which calls itself a near-arctic nation, has ambitious aspirations in the Arctic and has been conducting illegal activities in Canada for decades, call for action.
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