Canada can’t afford to sleepwalk on Arctic defense, experts say – Nunatsiaq News

Mar 25, 2025

Canada’s new defense partnership with Australia expected to strengthen Five Eyes alliance amid growing threats from Russia, China

Canadians should be unhappy that their political leaders haven’t taken Arctic and national defence more seriously until recently, says an expert on Arctic security.

There is, therefore, an urgency behind Canada’s newly announced defence partnership with Australia to build a $6-billion advanced radar system in the North for better surveillance and threat detection, said Alexander Dalziel, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an Ottawa-based policy think tank.

The partnership with Australia is expected to leverage that country’s expertise in naval and airborne surveillance, particularly in regions where radar detection is complicated by the Earth’s curvature.

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