A large cruise ship will sail the Northwest Passage in August with 1,000 passengers and more than 600 crew on board, and experts like UBC’s Michael Byers are concerned that Canada doesn’t have the capability to mount a rescue mission if the ship runs into trouble.
Byers, a Canada research chair in global politics and international law at UBC, told CBC that the Canadian Coast Guard isn’t properly equipped “to get to those people and retrieve them in time.”
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