National Defence committee  The first thing is to have awareness of what's going on across the country. Second, we have to clearly understand what the likely scenarios are. So we do those. We have those across government. The Government of Canada across different departments is using a common threat and haz

National Defence committee  I will get them in both official languages and bring them back to the committee.

National Defence committee  When you look at Operation Nanook 2011, it was focused on search and rescue in the north. We brought all of our assets together to see what we would have to do to have the capabilities in place in the highest part of the north if needed. So we actually do the training and exercis

National Defence committee  There are no equipment shortages. We actually have more than we need. In many cases what is needed at home are men and women who first provide a lot of that physical support. Beyond that, in a lot of cases engineering support is needed--backhoes and the like--which we do have acr

National Defence committee  It's adequate, yes, sir.

National Defence committee  No, not all. If you look at our readiness statistics and our ongoing readiness requirements, what I need are aircraft to provide a capability, and I get those every day, every hour, every minute from the Royal Canadian Air Force. So it has not impacted Canada Command or our abili

National Defence committee  From a Canada Command perspective, for example, we just completed a major exercise called Exercise Vigilant Shield. That exercise focused on activities, hazards, threats across Canada that involved all the navy, army, and air force and all of the headquarters. Operation Nanook

National Defence committee  What we do is every fall we conduct our Exercise Vigilant Shield and bring our teams together at different headquarters. As well, if you had the opportunity to speak to our regional joint task force commanders, you'd find they also conduct joint exercises at their levels. So we

National Defence committee  It could be Maple Guardian. It all depends on the scenario. Maple Guardian is another example. We are looking at whether we could use Maple Guardian in the domestic context and have a domestic scenario. So it's an example of what we could do.

National Defence committee  We already conduct exercises with my counterpart south of the border, with U.S. NORTHCOM, and will in the future with Southern Command. It has already been happening for three years, maybe even four years, where we conduct exercises. As I mentioned, Exercise Vigilant Shield was p

National Defence committee  I have not seen that situation, having been in this position, and having read all the historical data in the last four or five years. If you look at supporting the Olympics, where we had so many troops there at the same time, and fighting floods and threats back home, we have alw

National Defence committee  It's a question you'd have to pose to other commanders--Commander CEFCOM, because he's the one who deals and works with NATO. I'm more back here in the home game. What I can add from the perspective of North America is that with both U.S. SOUTHCOM and NORTHCOM, which are the com

National Defence committee  I don't have access to that information. I really don't need that information either. That's clearly a police issue. It's a question you probably want to raise either with the Department of Public Safety Canada or the RCMP. I don't have that information, nor do I need to have it.

National Defence committee  But that information would be with the police, and if the police need us, they would then come to us. There is always a concern about jeopardizing any investigation. So who needs to know needs to know it. If the Canadian Forces' capabilities are required, then it quickly comes

National Defence committee  Again, I haven't seen any. It's a question to be posed to the Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force, because he looks after the SAR techs from a force generation point of view--training, looking after them, and providing them to me. I've had SAR techs whenever I've required t