The Dempster highway as seen from the window of a CH-147F Chinook helicopter during a Canadian Armed Forces training exercise near Inuvik, Northwest Territories in March
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The Canadian government, for its part, has sought to reassure the US and Nato allies that it is doing its part to protect the region.
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Stuck between the US and Russia, Canada must prove it can defend its Arctic territory
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Canada's Arctic is a massive, treacherous, and largely inhospitable place, stretched out over nearly 4 million square kilometres of territory - but with a small population roughly equal to Blackburn in England or Syracuse, New York
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Canada's Arctic has not gone unnoticed by the Trump administration, which has reportedly become increasingly concerned by perceived vulnerabilities to US adversaries, and in April signed an executive order underscoring American "commitment to ensuring both freedom of navigation and American domination in the Arctic waterways."
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hypersonic missiles that travel at least five times the speed of sound, making them much harder to detect and intercept than traditional ballistic missiles, which would follow predictable arcs over the North Pole.
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