National Defence committee  The legal constraint is the issue of gathering information that may have been used in the case of a crime. So we're working with the RCMP to ensure that perhaps as we do this we try not to gather that information, which we're not, but if somehow we stumble into it we have the rig

National Defence committee  We can patrol our waters. If you look at the north, and it's worth the committee actually looking at the geography, clearly when you use the words “patrol our waters”, we do already. Canada's coast guard is in the north, so we do patrol our waters and we do express our sovereignt

National Defence committee  As mentioned in my comments up front, we have these entities called immediate reaction units—350 personnel that can be built very quickly. We can put them into the north extremely quickly. For example, given that we now have C-17s in the inventory of the Canadian Forces, we can m

National Defence committee  Commander NORAD reports directly to the Chief of Defence Staff, as does Canada Command, as does Commander CEFCOM. The three of us report to the Chief of Defence Staff. When one looks at NORAD, it has many Canadians in it. On a day-to-day basis, our two staffs speak. We have ongoi

National Defence committee  Thank you very much for the question. I would throw out for the committee to look at the word “sovereignty”. Sovereignty is expressed in many different ways. It's something I deal with every day. The military is only one way in which you express sovereignty. Another way is thr

National Defence committee  If you look at the whole search and rescue construct and framework, we're starting to find the word “search” is becoming smaller with the addition of more beacons. In many cases, if you have a beacon very little search is required to find an individual. We know where it happens.

National Defence committee  When you look at our Arctic sovereignty, it is clearly our Arctic sovereignty, and we use all available means to express that in the north. The Government of Canada has an Arctic strategy with four pillars. One of them speaks to sovereignty, and the others speak to economic devel

National Defence committee  Thank you very much for the question. Underlying all of this is that there must be a request from the province or the territory. Then what would happen in the current construct is that the request would go to the Department of Public Safety. Public Safety would look at it, not o

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. First, to put a little context around the question, the lead minister for search and rescue for maritime and air is the Minister of National Defence. When it comes to ground search, that's the responsibility of the RCMP. That's the framework. Secon

National Defence committee  Thank you. Good morning, Mr. Chairman. First, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and the members of this committee for allowing me to speak today. I know that you have heard from a number of officials from the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Force

National Defence committee  The one in four is already starting to come down. Something to remember is that you can't just get out of the regular force one day and join the reserve force the next day and walk into the job. You have to meet all the requirements. You have to be fit. You have to pass your medi

National Defence committee  What led us were the comments made by reservists who asked, “How do we find reserve job opportunities?” The point to note is that if you are a reservist, if you're on a three-year contract, we will also move you across the country. We've done that for many reservists under the ne

National Defence committee  To begin with, we don't know, but as I said, I've never had a grievance on the issue of someone not getting a class B job that somebody else got and thinking that was unfair. And I get grievances at my level--I'm one of the grievance authorities. I haven't seen it. I have heard t

National Defence committee  I don't know. We'd be more than happy to share with other government departments at no cost. Right now the army and the navy are looking at it, and then we'll kind of roll it out across the CF.

National Defence committee  First, the short answer is that I don't know of anybody at senior ranks, any general officer or flag officer, kept in their job while hired on as class B. That doesn't—