Manitoba premier touts Churchill as Canada's 'only hope' should Trump move to acquire Greenland

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Apart from Kinew’s shrewdness, is the hypothesis that we’d be unable to use the East and West ports?

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“Strategically, it can be the supply chain that’s needed to move goods to the North, whether that’s for military, whether that’s for civilians, whether that’s for businesses,” Chartrand said at an unrelated news conference in Winnipeg on Monday.

The Arctic Gateway Group, Winnipeg Airports Authority and CentrePort signed a memorandum of understanding, agreeing to work together more closely to capitalize on Manitoba’s land, rail, air and sea network.

“I’ve had the great privilege of speaking to people in the Armed Forces over the years and one saying that has stuck with me is that they say, ‘Amateurs think about strategies, professionals think about logistics,’” said Kinew.

Taking all three comments together and remembering that Manitoba is close to the centre of Canada (E to W anyway), it seems to meet all the requirements. Logistically we can still receive from Vancouver and Halifax - except both of those can be blockaded by the US in a heartbeat. Churchill is all ours, with the only rail line in Canada that feeds the northern region.

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I don’t think it’s clear what he means, tbh. I don’t see how it could mean anything other than a permanent military presence there, which
isn’t currently on the table?

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Churchill was once a very busy port for industry. Ironically, it was the semi-privatization of railway that shut down the line to Churchill, making of it a town that survives on tourism alone.

There have been multiple proponents and plans to revive the shipping line and reactivate the port of Churchill, which would effectively help alleviate shipping reliance on east coast or west coast incoming, if the “hypothetical” of USA port infrastructure weren’t kept in account.

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A lot of the CentrePort initiative has relied on the province being a good export route from the US, though.

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Yeah that’s what I thought as well. They gotta create two blockades. But either way I’m all for transport infrastructure buildups as they’re more often than not a net benefit.

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I didn’t give Trump permission to invade Greenland

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