Associate defence minister Julian Fantino says he’s confident Canada can hold its own when it comes to defending the Arctic in the face of any threats from Russia.
Canada launched Operation Nunalivut 2015 on April 1, an exercise involving a little more than 200 personnel. It runs until April 22 and takes place around Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.
The Canadian Forces has billed Nunalivut 2015 as “a large scale military exercise.”
But it pales in comparison to the Russian exercise in the Arctic several weeks ago involving 38,000 military personnel, 50 surface ships and submarines and 110 aircraft.
That exercise was meant to send a …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
