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What type of investment did you have to mind? Investments to boost commercial viability? Or improvements to boost Canadian sovereignty claims?

• slashdev 3y ago
  A fleet of ice breaker escorts? I don’t see how that could be cost effective.
  • version_five 3y ago
    TFA says Panama canal slots routinely exceed $350k so who knows. If there are times of year it's navigable, there could be lots of potential support services offered - keeping it clear of icebergs (if that's a concern), monitoring, ensuring a channel with the right depth, managing traffic etc., whatever is normally done in shipping channels.
    • slashdev 3y ago
      I suppose if you used powerful ice breakers, ideally nuclear like the Russians, and escorted ships through in a line, it could work. You couldn’t justify taking them through one by one. This kind of thing requires Canada to have long-term vision and will, things they’ve been lacking politically in the last decade or two, in my opinion.
  • augusto-moura 3y ago
    Well, you could technically connect some bodies of water and make the trip shorter, but ice would still be a problem. The biggest issue while building the Panama canal was the accidented terrain, a lot of mountais in the way, something that is not a big of a problem so far north.
    • dylan604 3y ago
      > but ice would still be a problem If they play this right, ice won't be a problem in the near future. > The biggest issue while building the Panama canal Don't forget about that pesky mosquito
  • devoutsalsa 3y ago
    Sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.