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Canada's new leader announces $4.2 billion Australian radar purchase on visit to Arctic Circle (apnews.com)
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday announced a radar purchase from Australia and an expansion of military operations in the Arctic while visiting Canada’s far north in an effort to assert sovereignty over the increasingly contested region.

The prime minister’s office said the Canadian $6 billion ($4.2 billion) Over-the-Horizon Radar system will provide early warning radar coverage from the Canada-United States border into the Arctic.

Carney announced the purchase at a military base in the capital of the Inuit-governed territory of Nunavut on his last stop after visiting Paris and London for meetings with leaders there.

The Australian radar system will consist of a series of pillars almost a mile (1.6 kilometers) in length. Officials said that the system would have a smaller footprint than what the similar American system would take up.

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[–] HonoredMule@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

Man, he's really hitting the ground running, and every step is fire. A couple weeks ago I was begging for Canada's leadership to shut down U.S. negotiations until Dumpster acknowledged our sovereignty and repudiated his threats against it. And Trudeau was handling things pretty well, but no way he'd go that far.

Carney did it in on day 2. ✊

I think we might have found the only leader in the Western world that can outpace the orange clown.

Addendum: I first broached that "demand acknowledgement" move over a month ago.

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 hours ago

Macron of France has really been doing a good job lately as well with pushing for Europe to become a new world superpower - both economically and militarily.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 4 points 4 hours ago

Hoping this is the first step of Australia trying to get out of AUKUS as well. Ask France if they still want to build the original subs they ordered.

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 hours ago

Good. If Canada wants to keep its northern land then it is going to have to take this more seriously. We live in a world full of thugs that see only weakness.