Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (52316)	10/19/2006 3:51:28 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Because large sections of them are not within 12 nm or even 24 nm of Canadian territory and thus not Canadian Territorial waters. Canada could consider them part of its Exclusive Economic Zone (assuming all the waters are within 200 nm of Canadian land) and bar fishing, mining, drilling or other development without its permission, but not passage. Even if the waters were considered Canadian Territorial waters there would be the right of passage through a "strait used for international navigation." The US has long opposed extension of territorial waters by other nations, and has enforced freedom of passage even with military operations, such as those in the Gulf of Sidra. Fortunately something like that is extremely unlikely to happen in a dispute between the US and Canada. Either they will come to some sort of agreement, or the disagreement will remain but be mostly ignored, or it will simmer and fester without actually coming to blows IMO. Also "fiction" might be a bit strong. Its not like Canada has no basis whatsoever for their claim. The US isn't the only country involved in a dispute with Canada about the arctic. The EU shares the US position on this issue, and Denmark and Canada dispute the status of Hans Island. en.wikipedia.org The World’s Forgotten Territorial Disputes foreignpolicy.com List of areas disputed by Canada and the United States en.wikipedia.org