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>a change of the weather shouldn't cause such a border to be redrawn.

look at climate changes during last 2-3 thousand years and how whole empires/civilizations got appeared and disappeared as a result.

On the [kind of] positive side [for high-tech industry i mean] Canada will become a big customer for air-, ground-, navy- and submarine drones :)

Does this count as a protection racket if the US military provides support? :)

The US is the prime opponent in this battle. They are the ones claiming the right to use the Northwest Passage as an international shipping lane. In my opinion, their position is weak as there is no historical tradition of the passage being used as such. Of course, I am Canadian, so I may be biased.

At the close of WW II Canada had the world's second most powerful navy. It may not be able to take on Russia or the US, but there's no reason for the modern Canadian navy to be this weak.

You don't need to patrol the entire length of the passage, just the egress points.