Information: - The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) (French: ) is the naval force of Canada. The RCN is one of three environmental commands within the unified Canadian Armed Forces. Canada's navy operates 1 destroyer, 12 frigates, 4 patrol submarines, 12 coastal defence vessels and 8 unarmed patrol/training vessels, as well as several auxiliary vessels. The Royal Canadian Navy consists of 8,500 Regular Force and 5,100 Primary Reserve sailors, supported by 5,300 civilians. Vice-Admiral Ron Lloyd is the current Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy and Chief of the Naval Staff. - Saskatchewan (or ) is a prairie and boreal province in west-central Canada, the only province without natural borders. It has an area of , nearly 10 percent of which is fresh water, composed mostly of rivers, reservoirs, and the province's 100,000 lakes. - In the Canadian Forces, Maritime Forces Pacific (MARPAC) is responsible for the fleet training and operational readiness of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Pacific Ocean. It was once referred to as Canadian Pacific Station. - Canada (French: ) is a country in the northern half of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering , making it the world's second-largest country by total area and the fourth-largest country by land area. Canada's border with the United States is the world's longest land border. The majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its land territory being dominated by forest and tundra and the Rocky Mountains. About four-fifths of the country's population of 36 million people is urbanized and live near the southern border. Its capital is Ottawa, its largest city is Toronto; other major urban areas include Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg and Hamilton. - Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt (CFB Esquimalt) is Canada's Pacific Coast naval base and home port to Maritime Forces Pacific and Joint Task Force Pacific Headquarters. - The South Saskatchewan River is a major river in Canada that flows through the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. - The Canadian titles debate has been ongoing since the presentation to the Canadian House of Commons of the Nickle Resolution in 1917. This resolution marked the earliest attempt to establish a Canadian government policy requesting the sovereign not to grant knighthoods, baronetcies, and peerages to Canadians and set the precedent for later policies restricting Canadians from accepting titles from foreign countries. Dissatisfaction with the British honours system led to the gradual creation of a separate system for Canada. - Statistics Canada, which was formed in 1971, is the Government of Canada government agency commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. Its headquarters is in Ottawa. - The Yellowhead Highway is a major interprovincial highway in Western Canada stretching from Winnipeg to Graham Island off the coast of British Columbia via Saskatoon and Edmonton. It stretches across the four western Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. It is part of the Trans-Canada Highway system and the larger National Highway System, but should not be confused with the more southerly, originally-designated Trans-Canada Highway. The highway was officially opened in 1970. Beginning in 1990, the green and white Trans-Canada logo was used to designate the roadway. - Saskatoon is the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Straddling a bend in the South Saskatchewan River and along the Trans-Canada Yellowhead Highway, it has served as the region's cultural and economic hub since it was founded in 1882 as a Temperance colony. At its 2011 population of 222,189, Saskatoon is the largest city in the province, while at a 2011 population of 260,600, the Saskatoon census metropolitan area (CMA) is the 17th largest CMA in Canada. The City of Saskatoon has since estimated its population to be 262,900 as of 2016, while Statistics Canada has estimated the CMA's population to have increased to 305,000 as of 2015. - HMCS Saskatoon is a Kingston - class coastal defence vessel that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1998 . Saskatoon is the tenth ship of her class which is the name for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project . She is the second vessel to use the designation HMCS Saskatoon , after the Flower class corvette HMCS Saskatoon ( K158 ) . The ship is named after the Canadian city of Saskatoon , and includes other references to the city such as naming the captains desk Cranberry Flats and a main corridor after Idylwyld Drive . Saskatoon was laid down on 5 September 1997 at Halifax Shipyards Ltd. , Halifax and was launched on 30 March 1998 . She was officially commissioned into the CF on 5 December 1998 and carries the pennant number 709 . She is assigned to Maritime Forces Pacific ( MARPAC ) and is homeported at CFB Esquimalt . - Idylwyld Drive is an arterial road in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It is one of the main roads in and out of the downtown area of the city. - The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'hmcs saskatoon ' exhibits the relationship of 'operator'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - australia - canada - canadian forces - ottawa - royal canadian navy - saskatchewan - southern
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