Canada’s new prime minister announces Australian radar purchase while visiting edge of Arctic Circle

Canada’s new leader will announce a multibillion dollar radar purchase from Australia and an expansion of military operations in the Arctic while visiting Canada’s far north in an effort to assert sovereignty over the increasingly contested region. The office of Prime Minister Mark Carney said that the Canadian $6 billion or $4.2 billion “Over-the-Horizon Rader” system will provide early warning radar coverage from the Canada-United States border into the Arctic. Carney will make announcement in Canada’s far north on Tuesday while in the capital of the Inuit-governed territory of Nunavut. It’s his last stop after visiting Paris and London where he met with leaders there.

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