There’s an Onion story in here somewhere. The Canadian Armed Forces are marching on the great white north:
Canada’s troops to reclaim Arctic
Five-year plan to ‘put footprints in the snow’ and assert northern sovereignty
Adrian Humphreys
National Post
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Canada is launching an extensive five-year plan to march soldiers through all of its uninhabited Arctic territory in the largest bid yet to exert sovereignty over its northern domain, an area drawing increasing international attention and conflicting territorial claims.
A renewed northern mobilization by the army, navy and air force — including new space-based technology — marks a significant increase in Canadian Forces resources earmarked for the region at a time when military funding is stretched extremely thin.