EyeBrock EyeBrock:
Option 3.
Re negotiate those treaties as they pertain to Canadian sovereign territory and enforce it with Coastguard, naval warships, recce aircraft and infantry elements. Ensure that entry to an 'international' passage way that transits Canadian territory has controlled access and is administered and enforced by Canada.
So you need to get 100 some-odd countries to agree to this. Good luck with that.
EyeBrock EyeBrock:
The US would never stand for this 'international' BS if it was their waters. We even have to ensure passenger manifests for passenger aircraft that are merely flying over US soil (not even landing in the US) meet US security approval.
Flying *over* the USA is not the same as navigating near it.
EyeBrock EyeBrock:
Come on Bart, the US enforces strict control of it's territory. Getting all 'international' on us is a bit hypocritical.
We do. You're right. But at the same time we also allow even foreign warships to close to within 12 nautical miles of our coastline because we want the same rights in *their* waters. We also do not interfere in international shipping to Canada that transits US waters in the St. Lawrence or the Strait of Juan de Fuca. We even go so far as to allow small foreign ships to use the Mississippi and the Chicago River to get to Canadian ports on the Great Lakes. And when we controlled the Panama Canal we allowed ships from countries we were hostile to through the Canal because of the treaties we had signed.
Come on Bart, if you Yanks force everybody flying through the US to follow your rules, why can't Canada force everybody sailing through our waters to follow ours?