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Canada urged to significantly boost its search and rescue capability in High Arctic
With more and more people taking advantage of the melting ice to travel to the world's polar regions, so too increases the risk for catastrophic accidents. But, even though it signed a circumpolar Search-and-Rescue Treaty at a meeting of the Arctic Council last May, Canada is far from being able to meet its obligations under that agreement. We speak with Ron Wallace who's written a policy paper for the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute think tank, on the importance of following through on the commitment.
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