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This analysis examines the actions taken by the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper between 2006 and 2015 in drawing attention to Canada's Arctic territory through the lens of securitization theory. This analysis focuses not only on the rhetorical attention that the Harper government paid to Arctic security, but also the difficulties encountered in translating a discursive securitization process into tangible policy outcomes. This analysis additionally focuses on how the Harper government's securitization of the Canadian Arctic resonated in public opinion polling. This research has implications for connecting securitization research focusing more on the construction of speech-acts to second-order results in bureaucratic processes. By expanding on existing tenets of securitization theory, this analysis is a useful case study in understanding how national governments "sell" the idea of an Arctic security "problem" to their respective citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]