i had an observation post we meet the commander of joint task force north brigadier general patrick carpentier say. he's inspecting his troops who are conducting surveillance in this isolated region he explains how hard it is to maintain a presence throughout canada's north if you take that area of land it's about the size of the continental u.s. so in that area there's only 150000 people that are separated in about 72 different communities so and so the challenges are communication transportation infrastructure. everything is a challenge in the north and that's not counting climate. his troops are always accompanied by a group. arctic rangers local you know it you work with the military. they play an important role. critical because if you can be united. the rangers are. the force of. the canadian armed forces only have around $400.00 soldiers permanently stationed here in the north. so they couldn't do without the help of the arctic rangers and the local population. along with 2 arctic rangers and a reconnaissance patrol were being transferred to an outpost on a small uninhabited island. the

i had an observation post we meet the commander of joint task force north brigadier general patrick carpentier way. he's inspecting his troops who are conducting surveillance and this isolated region he explains how hard it is to maintain a presence throughout canada's north if you take that area of land it's about the size of the continental u.s. so in that area there's only 150000 people that are separated in about 72 different units so so the challenges are communication transportation infrastructure. everything is a challenge in the north and that's not counting climate. his troops are always accompanied by a group. arctic rangers local you know it the work with the military. they play an important role. critical because if you look at the art of. the rangers. boys i think it's a situation where. the canadian armed forces only have around $400.00 soldiers permanently stationed here in the north. so they couldn't do without the help of the arctic rangers and the local population. along with 2 arctic rangers and a reconnaissance patrol were being transferred to an outpost on a small uninhabi