The best way to safely and quickly dispatch armed icebreakers to the Arctic would be to equip existing vessels with 50-calibre weapons, the commander of Joint Task Force Atlantic said Wednesday.
Rear Admiral Dan McNeil said Canada could assert its presence and sovereignty in the north by placing naval personnel on coast guard icebreakers that could patrol the frozen archipelago that has caused jurisdictional rifts with the United States.
If you want to arm them, the easiest way to do it safely is to put a naval contingent on a coast guard vessel," McNeil told reporters during a wide-ranging interview in his home Wednesday.
"If you wanted to do it really quickly you'd put trained naval people together who know how to operate a 50-cal and you strap one on an icebreaker and you have an armed icebreaker.
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