Power play: How US-Canada cooperation can skip the games and secure our borders

The U.S. hockey team’s stunning triumph successful the Olympics has thrilled Americans and stunned and disappointed Canadians: 2 peoples who are experiencing their ain icy relations close now.

Nonetheless, the information that 5 of the US players, including prima goalie Connor Hellebuyck, play connected Canadian NHL teams, portion nary little than 22 Canadian squad members play connected American teams, reminds america however intimately tied some countries really are, nary substance what their respective politicians accidental astir each other.

Indeed, leaders request to acceptable speech their idiosyncratic pique and spot the US-Canada narration for what it is, a concern forged successful past with communal economical and strategical interests to advance, arsenic good arsenic the resources to match.

"Forged successful history" isn’t conscionable a substance of some countries being portion of the English-speaking people’s bequest of state and prosperity for the world, alongside the UK, Australia and New Zealand. It besides reflects Canada’s indispensable publication to Allied triumph successful World War II. The conflict of the Atlantic, and hence triumph implicit Nazi Germany, would not person been imaginable without the Canadian Royal Navy, which grew to go the world’s third-largest, from 13 ships successful 1939 to implicit 400 by 1945, arsenic its frigates, destroyers, and destroyer escorts shielded captious Allied convoys. More than 1.1 cardinal Canadians served successful uniform, with 45,000 losing their lives — a higher proportionality of subject deaths comparative to colonisation (roughly 0.4%) than the United States (0.32%).

Canada besides worked manus successful mitt with the US and UK connected concealed atomic probe during World War II. In the Cold War, Canadians were indispensable to the instauration of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network, the astir palmy quality web successful history. The Five Eyes’s part of planetary labour allotted to Canada 2 areas adjacent much important today: the polar regions of Russia and the interior of China.

Yet Canada’s opportunities for practice with the United States spell further than that of immoderate different Five Eyes member, oregon adjacent different NATO members. The aboriginal of the Western Hemisphere — possibly adjacent the escaped satellite — whitethorn beryllium connected however Washington and Ottawa find communal crushed successful shaping the aboriginal of the planetary economy. 

The astir evident assemblage is energy. Between them, the United States and Canada nutrient astir 30 percent of the world’s earthy state and 25 percent of the world’s oil. By promoting practice successful LNG exports crossed the Atlantic and Pacific and successful gathering cross-border pipelines similar the still-suspended XL Pipeline, Ottawa and Washington would predominate planetary markets arsenic ne'er before. And portion bringing Venezuela’s lipid manufacture backmost to highest ratio volition instrumentality years, a US-Canada vigor consortium tin reshape the geopolitics of vigor production, acold sooner.

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The adjacent accidental is strategical mineral extraction and refining. Any mineral extraction program centered connected American possession of Greenland oregon deals with Ukraine volition instrumentality years — adjacent decades — to output results. By contrast, Canada is already a large shaper of gold, iron, nickel and copper. It’s besides progressive successful important projects to pat into its affluent reserves successful uncommon world elements specified arsenic cobalt, graphite, vanadium and lithium (Canada presently has the sixth-largest lithium reserves successful the world, and the sixth oregon seventh-largest reserves successful cobalt).

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While China presently dominates proviso chains successful these captious minerals, a vigorous U.S.-Canada consortium could displace China arsenic a large supplier to satellite markets. Indeed, Canadian companies could assistance to revive the United States’ ain mining industry, and unneurotic acceptable cleanable and environmentally harmless standards for the extraction of each these materials.

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In presumption of strategical goals, Canada owns fractional of North America’s "Fourth Coast," i.e. the 10,000 mile positive shoreline of the Great Lakes and 1 of the large historical centers of U.S. shipbuilding. Currently ranked 6th oregon 7th successful satellite shipbuilding, Canada, similar the U.S. is looking to antiauthoritarian allies similar South Korea and Japan to beef up large-scale shipbuilding and naval defence capacity. Indeed, this past week, Ontario Shipyards partnered with South Korea's Hanwha Ocean to bring large-scale shipbuilding backmost to Ontario, including naval vessels. In short, practice with Canadian companies similar Ontario Shipyards tin beryllium portion of restoring America's ain maritime strength.

Finally, Canada volition beryllium an indispensable spouse successful plans for the Golden Dome rocket defence system, offering captious Arctic territory, sensors, and radar infrastructure for continental rocket defense.

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