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Poilievre pledges Arctic military base, naval icebreakers if party forms government

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pledging, if his party forms government, to build a military base in Canada’s Arctic, buy two polar icebreakers for the Royal Canadian Navy and double the size of the Canadian Rangers patrol group responsible for upper reaches of the North.

Mr. Poilievre is scheduled to unveil this pledge Monday morning in the Arctic city of Iqaluit.

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