February 2006

Existing Plans and the Requirement for Iqaluit's Deep Water Port

Costing the Deep Water Port Planned for Iqaluit

April 2006

Costing Three New Canadian Forces Heavy Armed Icebreakers

Update: On 10 August 2007, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that the CF would develop a new naval base at the existing deepwater port at Nanisivik. Perceived advantages include: a strategic location on the Northwest Passage, pre-exisiting dock and refuelling infrastructure, and a nearby airstrip. Downsides are a gravel runway –  Iqaluit has the only paved runway in Nunavut – and, with a new base built at Nanisivik, Iqaluit,  the capital of Nunavut,  is still left without a deep water port.