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Safeguarding Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty Through Self-Surveillance

96.2 Safeguarding Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty Through Self-Surveillance

Whereas, There is a growing concern that Canadian Arctic water sovereignty is becoming more difficult to assert; and,

Whereas, Self-surveillance could be carried out through the installation of a subsurface acoustic detection system which

would monitor strategic points in the Canadian Archipelago as well as subsurface activity in the Arctic Basin;

therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That The National Council of Women of Canada urge the Government of Canada to adopt a policy of self-surveillance

in Canadian Arctic Waters.