The Northwest Passage is Canada's sovereignty floating away?

International Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 831-848

  Charron, Andrea ^a  

^a ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

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EID: 29144433332     PISSN: 00207020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002070200506000316     Document Type: Review

References (33)

1. Speech from the throne delivered by the governor general to open the first session of the 38th parliament of Canada, 5 October.
2. See "Northern strategy", Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, www.northernstrategy.ca.
3. See especially, "Reinforcing sovereignty, national security and circumpolar cooperation."
4. Franktyn Griffiths, "The shipping news: Canada's arctic sovereignty not on thinning ice," International journal (Spring 2003): 257-82. The title is derived from a conference held in Ottawa in 2002 entitled "Thinning ice."
5. "Statement on sovereignty," 10 September 1995 as reprinted in Franklyn Griffiths, ed., Politics of the Northwest Passage (Kingston & Montreal: McCill-Queen's University Press, 1987), 269-73.
6. "Defence of North America: A Canadian responsibility," 8th report, standing senate committee on national security and defence, September 2002, www.parl.gc.ca.
7. The Canadian Yearbook of International Law 2002, vol. 40 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003), 497.
8. John Kirton and Don Munton, "The Manhattan voyages and their aftermath," in Griffiths, Politics of the Northwest Passage, 93.
9. Griffiths, "The shipping news," 257-82.
10. Griffiths, "The shipping news," Ibid., 259-60.
11. "Breaking the ice," Economist, 19 August 2004.
12. "Impacts of a warming arctic: Arctic climate impact assessment," Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, www.amap.no, 2004.
13. Griffiths, "The shipping news," 258.
14. John Honderich, Arctic Imperative: Is Canada Losing the North? (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1987), 39-40.
15. Agreement between the government of the Untied States of America and the government of Canada on arctic cooperation, 11 January 1988 in Walter Slipchenko, "International arctic cooperation: A Canadian dream or a necessity?" The Arctic: Choice for Peace and Security, A Public Inquiry (Vancouver: Cordon Soules Book Publishers Ltd, 1989), 98.
16. "Budget investments seek to realize northern potential," Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 25 March 2004, www.ainc-inac.gc.ca.
17. Arctic waters pollution prevention act, RSC, 198;, CA-12.
18. The legislation was introduced in the house on 8 April 1970. The Manhattan began its second voyage i April 1970.
19. D.M. McCrae, "The negotiation of article 234," in Griffiths, Politics of the Northwest Passage, 100.
20. Kirton and Munton, "The Manhattan voyages," 91.
21. Kirton and Munton, "The Manhattan voyages," Ibid, 95.
22. Joel J. Sokolsky, Defending Canada: US-Canadian Defense Policies (New York: Priority Press Publications, 1989), 20. Although Sokolsky was referring specifically to the Cold War in this book, his concerns are relevant and germane to discussions about the passage.
23. W. Harriet Critchley, "Defence and policing in arctic Canada", in Griffiths, Politics of the Northwest Passage, 200-15. The launching of RADARSAT II may help to provide better monitoring, but it cannot address enforcement.
24. Griffiths, "The shipping news," 276.
25. Griffiths, "The shipping news," Ibid., 280.
26. Government of Nunavut, www.gov.nu.ca.
27. "The northern dimension of Canada's foreign policy," Foreign Affairs Canada, www.dfaitmaeci.gc.ca.
28. AETPS as found on the Arctic Council website at www.arctic-council.org.
29. Oran Young, "Arctic shipping: An American perspective," Griffiths, Politics of the Northwest Passage, 116.
30. The APP was a Canadian private-public venture of the 19705 to create a gas pipeline from Drake Point to Melville Island where ice-strengthened supertankers would then transport the gas to eastern Canada all year round. For a summary of the failure of APP, see Jennifer Lewington, "Lessons of the arctic pilot project," in Griffiths, Politics of the Northwest Passage, 163-80.
31. Preamble, arctic waters pollution prevention act.
32. Young, "An American perspective," 131-32.
33. Young, "An American perspective," Ibid., 118.