Arctic exercise includes show-and-tell in Cambridge Bay
Canadian Armed Forces members take part in Operation Nanook-Nunalivut in February. Operation Nanook is an annual northern military exercise. (Photo courtesy of Master Cpl. Sarah Morley, Canadian Armed Forces)
It is suggested that the unarmed, staffed CAN -DEWLine stations, 50 miles physical separation, 1960-61 were a better “boots on the ground” expression of territorial sovereignty than any line drawn on a territory map. The technical feasibility of CAN’s recently proposed, Australia developed, extremely long range ionospheric scatter radar detection system, located and staffed in ONtario, is as well questionable.