I last lived in Canada in the amalgamated, expanded community of Red Lake in northwestern Ontario. The lake has 230 miles (370 kilometers) of shoreline and was 400 feet deep in various locations. I had an older 27-foot cabin cruiser, a 16-foot fiberglass bow-rider with a relatively large outboard motor, and a 16-foot aluminum canoe. The lake was teeming with fish, typically walleye (known simply as pickerel there), northern pike, and lake trout. Many summer weekend evenings were spent at one of the natural beaches created by west-to-east, leeward winds.
My American friends would ask, “Why did you have so many boats?” I would jokingly say,” I wanted one more than the Royal Canadian Navy”.
I never went boating to prove a point – even as a fisherman, I was not that good.
However, the Royal Canadian Navy had a recent point, and it was not an exercise to patrol oceans to protect Canada or her sea lanes. Instead The HMCS Margaret Brooke (HMCS - His (or Her) Majesty's Canadian Ship), an arctic patrol boat took a recent escapade down to the Antarctic with visits to various ports in the Caribbean and South America– one the way to the Antarctic they made Canadian government “nice nice” to several foreign nations.
Among the military seaman on board the patrol boat, were 15 federal government and university scientists who took ice and sediment cores of the Antarctic for analysis and study and determine the rate of retreat of the ice sheet, yet as I recently wrote in the article “Sea Ice Follies”, in most of the Antarctic, the sea ice is advancing.
As if talking to one of those scientists aboard the patrol boat, John Robson, a Canadian documentary filmmaker and columnist, wrote in the Epoch Times, In an Article entitled “There Are More Vital Uses for Our Navy Than Researching Climate Change in Antarctica”, “Let me tell you, buddy, the government didn’t send you there to see whether, but to say yes. I’m glad you saw cute penguins. But I wish you’d seen the ugly state of our navy and government science. And said so.”
In other words, Robson wanted these scientists to admit to the deception of the sea ice retreat and climate change in general, but the Canadian government would not want the scientists to tell the truth.
