Canada is really good at being unnoticed and not least because it knows that its resource base is a huge temptation to human greed.
Also understand that the operational Northwest passage has been open since 2012 and every year since. The big icebreakers are coming and they will allow churchill to be operated year round and the passage itself for six months as well. It can be done and will be done.
Let me explain that. One year sea ice is highly fragile and hits a maximum thickness of five feet. That is still hard to sail through but easy enough to lift up and crush or alternatively to crush using a huge hovercraft. A large enough system can keep both routes open if shipping justifies it. Convoying will be useful to keep costs down
On top of that high speed freight can travel from Prince rupert through either Churchill or Chicago and the St Lawrence Seaway. Three days max for either. Or on rail to Montreal or past quebec City as well.
All of this competes with the Panama Canal and Suez in terms of time by weeks and by hard costs. The land routes alone can do it on costs while the NorthWest passage is a total game changer.
Understand that we have lost most of our multi year ice and all one year sea ice can be crunched through by icebreakers and the issue then is size.
Understand that every trading nation on earth must ultimately deal with Panama, the Suez and yes now Canada. Except Canada also supplys massive supplies of inputs.
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