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What IS the conflict. The U.S. and most of the world claims it is an International Waterway.

Canada claims it is a passage in Canadian Water, inside Canada. A look at a Canadian map and that is what it looks like.

But Canada has done little to assert their claim. A big failure is the inability to control or administer the passage militarily. Only recently has Canada acquired Submarines needed to patrol the passage and the defense of the passage rests with a foreign power the United States, one of the nations claiming it is an international water way. Canada lacks the icebreakers needed and cannot or is not able to even keep their Arctic port, Churchill, open year round, let alone administer the passage year round.

Canada owns all the land around the passage but even there some question who really owns it, the Inuit or the Canadian Government. Canada has signed many agreements undermining Canadian ownership of much of Canada and that includes the Arctic and the passage.

Of course none of that even begins to touch on the international legal issues currently being discussed. By the time the passage is being used year round by many nations it will be settled by the many lawyers and diplomats involved. Or at least we hope so.

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