“In exercising our sovereignty over these waters, we are not only fulfilling our duty to the people who called this northern frontier home, and to the generations that will follow; we are also being faithful to all who came before us, who through great hardship and sacrifice made a quest for knowledge of the North.”

— Stephen Harper

Announcement of the John G. Diefenbaker icebreaker project, August 28, 2008.
2008

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