Canada is rapidly losing its technological capability in monitoring China’s undersea Arctic activities
. The paper says the listening systems are for peaceful purposes, but the actual ramifications of the HABs, buoys and research systems are inescapable. China is refining its means of monitoring the Canadian North.
This ability to monitor underwater activity is troubling for Canada. First, Canada itself has no such ability to monitor its own regions. Second, it means that any allied submarines in or near these waters can be closely tracked by the Chinese, which is a tremendous strategic benefit considering that a submarine’s main advantage in this situation is its ability to operate undetected.
As its rapid Arctic expansion continues, Beijing will soon be able to monitor and act in Arctic waters, especially below the surface, at a level far beyond what Canada can do or respond to. Tracking an icebreaker’s deep-sea submersibles will not be possible; Canada will have only a limited ability to monitor the mothership for these subs, for as long as it has the satellite capabilities to do so.
China will very soon enjoy a major advantage in monitoring Arctic waters, especially under the surface, and it will have confidence that Canada has little ability to see what is going on or do anything about it. Factor in the overwhelming evidence of Beijing’s efforts to target and interfere in our political system – and our reluctance or inability to respond to these actions – and the larger threat to Canada’s very sovereignty comes starkly into view.
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