This is a ballsy venture. The northwest passage is notoriously unpredictable and Canada does not have the heavy ice breakers needed to rescue a cable-laying sh

This is a ballsy venture. The northwest passage is notoriously unpredictable and Canada does not have the heavy ice breakers needed to rescue a cable-laying ship unfortunate enough to become ice-bound. If the worst happens, the operators will have to abandon ship and evacuate by air. Still, their chances are a lot better than they would be if they tried to build cable across land in Canada at present. Environmentalists are so whipped up into a frenzy about pipelines that any kind of infrastructure project that crosses multiple provincial borders is doomed to languish in bureaucracy for decades. The rapid approval of this project truly is a sign of how hard-up Nunavut is for affordable bandwidth! On a more humorous note, how hilarious would be it if HFT traders had to move to the artic to position themselves in between London and Toyko? Freeze suckers!