{"id":42925,"date":"2021-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/04\/12\/canada-calls-out-china-climate-change-as-growing-concerns-in-arctic\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:22:23","slug":"canada-calls-out-china-climate-change-as-growing-concerns-in-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/smr\/frozen-pathways\/2021\/04\/12\/canada-calls-out-china-climate-change-as-growing-concerns-in-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada calls out China, climate change as growing concerns in Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VICTORIA, British Columbia \u2014 Canadian defense leaders have highlighted climate change and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2020\/05\/11\/chinas-strategic-interest-in-the-arctic-goes-beyond-economics\/\" target=_blank>Chinese expansion into the Arctic<\/a> as future issues the country will have to grapple with in the far north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The warnings came as the Royal Canadian Navy recently completed ice testing and trials for the first of its new fleet of Arctic offshore patrol ships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acting Chief of the Defence Staff Lt. Gen. Wayne Eyre sent all Canadian forces personnel a message on March 24, highlighting some of defense issues the military will face in the future. He noted that the military is currently supporting northern communities to help with the coronavirus pandemic while also working with the United States to improve surveillance of North America\u2019s aerospace and Arctic territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cVarious trends such as climate change, increased interest in the Arctic, and challenges to our national resilience, made clear during the pandemic, are driving change in how we conceptualize national defence,\u201d Eyre wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that Canada is already procuring improved capabilities, such as the naval vessels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In February, HMCS Harry DeWolf, the first Arctic offshore patrol ship, sailed into Arctic waters to test its capabilities. \u201cCold weather and ice trials were also conducted as part of its post-acceptance trials program off the coast of Baffin Island,\u201d noted Department of National Defence spokesman Dan Le Bouthillier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the ship, which is the first of six such vessels, is scheduled to conduct its first operation in the Arctic in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The department\u2019s deputy minister, Jody Thomas, warned analysts and retired military officers during a March 10 conference that China\u2019s expansion into the Arctic also poses a risk to Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe should not underestimate at all that threat of resource exploitation in the Arctic by China in particular,\u201d Thomas said during a virtual meeting of the Conference of Defence Associations. \u201cChina has a voracious appetite and will stop at nothing to feed itself, and the Arctic is one of the last domains and regions left, and we have to understand it and exploit it \u2014 and more quickly than they can exploit it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canada is already making moves to limit Chinese presence in the region. In December, the Canadian government, citing national security concerns, refused to allow a Chinese state-controlled firm to purchase a gold mine in Canada\u2019s Arctic territory. The mine was located in Hope Bay, Nunavut, and would have given China a foothold near the Northwest Passage. That passage is seen as a key shipping route as ice melts due to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thomas also raised concerns about Russian activities in the Arctic, including that country\u2019s construction of military bases and new polar icebreakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNobody would invest the kind of money in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2020\/05\/11\/the-us-navy-returns-to-an-increasingly-militarized-arctic\/\" target=_blank>building up the military capacity in the Arctic<\/a> without reason, intent or purpose,\u201d she said. \u201cWe should not be naive about that. It doesn\u2019t mean it is immediate, but it is there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canada\u2019s interest in improving its military presence in the Arctic started more than a decade ago under the Conservative Party government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Harper started the program for Arctic offshore patrol ships, announced the construction of a new naval port in the north, launched a plan to build a new polar-class icebreaker and pushed for a greater military presence in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He cited as a reason for the expansion the presence of oil, gas and minerals in the country\u2019s Arctic territory \u2014 resources he labeled as critical to Canada\u2019s economic growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the country\u2019s ambitious military plans for the Arctic remain limited by the difficult logistics of building installations and resupplying forces in the vast and harsh northern region. Canada\u2019s northern region consists of more than 1.5 million square miles (that\u2019s larger than India). But there are less than 120,000 people in the entire region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canadian military officers acknowledge that the logistics of operating in the Arctic rival \u2014 or even surpass in difficulty \u2014 operations in austere war zones such as Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense analyst Martin Shadwick has pointed to the logistics issue as a major problem hindering the military\u2019s Arctic strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe distances to travel up there are enormous, and the Canadian forces [have] to transport in everything they need,\u201d said Shadwick, a strategic studies professor at York University in Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Canadian government has had to scale back plans for a new naval port at Nanisivik, Nunavut. 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