Oldgateboatdriver
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Actually, Reuters is not quite correct in describing the differences between Canada and the US on the North-West Passage (and the US and Russia on the North-East Passage too).
Canada claims that you can draw lines from Island to Island along the outside of the Arctic archipelago and that all that is encompassed within those lines are internal waters of Canada, subject to our absolute whim under the law of the sea applicable to such waters.
The US recognizes Canada's claim to those waters, but as territorial sea which, as they link two ocean or two parts of the same ocean and are navigable, constitute international straits, subject to the rules appertaining there to - including the unimpeded right of innocent passage for non Canadian shipping, including warships transiting but not conducting operations.
Canada claims that you can draw lines from Island to Island along the outside of the Arctic archipelago and that all that is encompassed within those lines are internal waters of Canada, subject to our absolute whim under the law of the sea applicable to such waters.
The US recognizes Canada's claim to those waters, but as territorial sea which, as they link two ocean or two parts of the same ocean and are navigable, constitute international straits, subject to the rules appertaining there to - including the unimpeded right of innocent passage for non Canadian shipping, including warships transiting but not conducting operations.
