Heard On The Hill

John McKay and Anju Dhillon join Navy in the Arctic for more than just iceberg watching

Also, PS Rudd does not want to continue as a parliamentary secretary, and the CBC apologizes to NDP MP Christine Moore.

Liberal MP John McKay travelled with the Navy to the Arctic to look into the dangers threatening Canadian sovereignty. 'Canadians absolutely have no idea what the Canadian military does for them on a daily basis,' he said. Photograph courtesy of Twitter

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BY NEIL MOSS

September 3, 2018

Liberal MP John McKay spent three days at sea off the coast of Nunavut in mid-August to check in on Canada's defence of its Arctic sovereignty. Mr. McKay, a former parliamentary secretary of defence from 2015 to 2017, boarded HMCS Charlottetown on Aug. 16 and joined the 220 sailors and 10 so...

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