‘Climate Change’ Makes Canada Easier for Russia to Attack
Robert Kraychik
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described “climate change” as a threat to Canadian national security during a press conference on Friday in Cold Lake, Alberta, alleging that global warming increases Russian military “accessibility” to Canada’s Arctic north.
Trudeau was joined by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg as they delivered remarks on what they both described as the dangers of “climate change” to the “security” of Canada, the United States, and Europe.
Canadian military personnel, Trudeau claimed, must change their methods of operation to deal with changing terrain due to “climate change,” which he described as a “risk multiplier” amplifying the likelihood of armed conflict around the world.
He remarked:
Yesterday, Secretary General Stoltenberg and I visited Cambridge Bay in Nunavut. We toured a north warning system site and the Canadian High Arctic Research Station. We spent a lot of time with Inuit community leaders.
We heard about the ways global warning is changing the Arctic environment, and changing the very terrain on which our Canadian Armed Forces operate.
It is clear to researchers, military experts, and both the Secretary General and I that climate change is a risk multiplier. Not only are wildfires and floods increasing aid demands on the CAF, but globally, climate change is raising the risk of conflict. We need to take action to address its impacts on national and international security.