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‘We’re effectively a border state with Russia’: Defending Canada’s far-north called key to protecting sovereignty

Canada needs to look north if it is to make serious efforts to defend its sovereignty, say analysts.

Observers are praising comments made Thursday by Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre, who made clear his plans to bolster Canada’s presence in the arctic.

“The far-north is a key area of concern,” Eyre said during Thursday’s keynote talk at the 90th Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence — explaining Canada’s northern flanks are also NATO’s northern flanks.

 

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