The news is awash with the Russian flag planting trip to the north pole, but Canada doesn’t seem to be taking it all that seriously.

Russia has sent a submarine to plant a flag beneath the ice of the North Pole in an audaciouas bid to lay claim to the resource-rich Arctic.

The submarine managed to plant a Russian rust-proof titanium flag on the seabed. 14,000 feet beneath the surface of the Arctic Ocean, according to Vladimir Strugatsky, vice president of Russia’s polar exploration association.

Canada’s response? Foreign Minister Peter MacKay mocked them.

Oh the horrors, a mocking, a public mocking even….. that’ll teach them!! I can imagine the Russian Ambassador being reduced to tears over such a thing, huddled, sobbing in the corner, calling for his mommy - can’t you?

And I’m sure that at one point or another in history stronger governments than Putins’ have been laid low by a good old fashioned mocking - haven’t they?

The Americans, with even the tiny little bit of Arctic front property they control, are taking this stunt a lot more more seriously

A United States icebreaker will leave Seattle August 6 for an Arctic research mission, just after Russia attempts to symbolically lay claim to a huge section of the region, the Coast Guard said Thursday.

News of the Healy vessel’s trip came as two Russian mini-submarines started the first-ever dive 4,200 meters (14,000 feet) under the ice near the North Pole to take soil and fauna samples on the ocean floor, and back the country’s claim to a vast swathe of the hydrocarbon-rich Arctic territory.

I wonder who else is planning a trip to stake their claim before our government manages to do as much as get a rowboat dropped from a helicopter into the Arctic Ocean in the general vicinity of the north pole - the Jamaicans ………….