Knowing that the Christmas season is coming, I hope that at the end of it all we can still say that Santa Claus is a Canadian.
Mr. Hamilton, you said that you hadn't had a chance to view the Auditor General's “Report 6—Arctic Waters Surveillance”. However, there is an interesting note in here in exhibit 6.3 on page 4 that says....
Just so you know, in 2020 the navigation season in the Arctic was restricted. No pleasure craft or others were allowed to come into northern communities because of possible exposure to COVID-19, but some vessels tried to breach those restrictions.
In the exhibit, it says:
For example, during that summer, a foreign sailing vessel entered the Canadian Arctic without approval or exemption. It was identified in the vicinity of Cambridge Bay by an Inuit monitor.
Our systems of surveillance missed it completely until it was almost at shore, where somebody actually saw it, probably a Ranger.
My question to you is this: Do we know the nationality of that vessel?