# Canada Owns The Northwest Passage?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-owns-the-northwest-passage/527167>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 31, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-owns-the-northwest-passage/527167 "2010-01-31T22:18:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-owns-the-northwest-passage/527167/61 "2010-02-02T21:07:36Z")

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> [@DanBlather](#):
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> I think the worst that will happen is they’ll force the ships to form an orderly queue.

Those bastards!

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-owns-the-northwest-passage/527167/62 "2010-02-02T22:28:37Z")

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Funny though it is to make jokes, it’s dumb shit like this that starts wars. Who would’ve thought Argentina and the UK would fight a war over the Falkland Islands? Canada’s got a better armed forces than Argentina did. All it takes is a few years of posturing, a little “let’s have a military presence there,” and next thing you know someone panics and takes a shot at someone.

It would be nice if the interested countries would get together and slam an agreement out here but at this stage nobody seems interested in that.

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