General Jacoby is the commander of NORAD. He has a North American perspective. What I would say is that he drank the NORAD Kool-Aid. Missile defence is a U.S. Strategic Command mission. His role in NORTHCOM NORAD is direct command of one part of what will become the global U.S. missile defence system.
So who are we engaging here? Is it STRATCOM? Is it the senior levels of the Pentagon? Is it NORAD? I can understand General Jacoby, given the way it is structured at the operational headquarters. I've never been in there so I don't know exactly, but you have a Canadian sitting there doing ballistic missile early warning and beside him is the American doing missile defence, and you don't look at that screen because you are not allowed....
But of course most of the missile defence isn't going to take place in that venue anyways. The command and control systems are located in other places.
So I'm not convinced. I think you always get the answer out of the commander of NORAD, no matter who it is, including the new admiral, that yes, they would like Canada to participate and they'd like to cooperate more and more with Canada. But that person does not speak for Washington. They do not speak for the other major combatant commanders and other commanders in the United States, and there are other vested interests.