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US? superpower? 32.5 million people = superpower? I'm not trying to be modest, i don't see how it could be done. I would definitally like it to happen though.

   

Hmmm. While I agree in principle that the area is Canadian, Canada signed the Convention on the Seas and agreed that Intenational Waters are any waters more than 12 nautical miles from sovereign territory. It is possible to navigate that particular waterway without impinging on internationally recognized Canadian territorial limits. You're the guys who are always beating me over the head with international governance and here it is biting you in the ass.

Now you know why I'm not a big fan of international governance of what should clearly be national sovereignty issues.

The passage transects hundred of miles of Canada without violating international limits, but still, it just seems wrong to be able to see Canada on both sides of a ship for hundreds of miles yet to legally be in international waters.

And control of the passage could make Canada a superpower.

   

I think what Hoser means is that WE as Canadians will have a big impact on territorial waters along the lines of shipping. Oil and other resources that might be found there would also benefit us but to say we would become a "superpower" is stretching it a bit though.

   

How? Having control over a piece of land (or in this case territorial waters) isn't enough to make one a superpower. While the concept seems nice, it is highly unlikely.

   

It's the sheer fucking principle of the matter imho.

Who cares what it is, or what importance it may have in the future. That's a part of my country, not Denmark. Back off or I'll move to that bloody island and if you show up again I'll send you home with a rupture.

   

actually, if a dedicated citizen lived there, the dispute would be solved.

   

I vote that we get 1971 really drunk and put him on a heli and fly him out, than put TV cameras on the island and watch him. It'd be a killer Reality TV shot.

   

make a new survivor series on hans island, full of a bunch of drunk canadians

   

Survivor, Eh?:
Piece-O'-Shit Island

Ehhhhhhhh ehhhhhhhh ehhh ehhhhhhh ehhhehhehhhhhhhhhhh

   

Superpower? Canada?

Using this reasoning, Panama and Egypt would be superpowers for their canals that connect the different oceans. But they are not. And Canada will not.

This is not to denigrate Canada at all. Canada is a wonderful country that happened to claim some uninhabitable arctic because all it took was to draw some lines on a map. Canada has no investment there and no development. International law pretty well defines the use of waterways and Canada's claim to the NW Passage is not supported by that law. Also, claiming the NW Passage is not necessary to Canada's security.

   

Just found this article. Canada sending it's might and power now? Hmm next move is up to the Danes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4175446.stm

P.S, didn't the Danes just send a warship?

   

that they did. they didn't plant a flag on advice od the ambassadors, as it would re-fuel the dispute.

   

Maybe we'll see a good ol fashioned naval battle between the Danes and Canada."Bam, BANG" went the Canadian guns destroying the Danes puny warship. Thus brings upon a war between the most inept military powers on Earth.

   

that would be intreasting. to coastal patrol vessels with a pee shooter vs. a 3500 ton frigate made out of lego that fires 1100lb blocks of lego at ya from 5 miles away. sounds like fun... bring it! and when were all in the life boats it'll be . however. i wouldn't want to be the poor sucker that has to with a viking.

   

Curling solves all problems. The island is just long enough for a rink. Let the stones land where they will and produce a winner.

   

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