Quick Hits Episode 270 - Climate change and national security, part two

During the Cold War, Canada maintained radar stations in its north to warn against Soviet ballistic missiles coming over the pole, in an arrangement with the US called the DEW Line (distant early warning). Now with the Northwest Passage becoming ice-free more and more, states like Russia and China may see this route, which neither recognises as Canadian internal waterways, as exploitable. As both nations are inimical to Canadian interests this issue has a military and national security nexus. Furthermore, climate change mass migration will likely feed far right white nationalist and anti-immigrant movements, again posing a threat to national security.