National Defence committee  Thank you very much.

National Defence committee  Exactly.

National Defence committee  I am not able to answer that. I could look into that.

National Defence committee  I am not familiar with those details, but I will check.

National Defence committee  In territorial waters? Absolutely.

National Defence committee  Are you alluding to the CADIZ equivalent for submarines?

National Defence committee  NORAD has been given the mandate to ensure maritime surveillance. Currently, the process to define exactly how that mandate will be executed is underway.

National Defence committee  Absolutely I do, because we cannot afford.... Our mission is very clear. It's to defend against any threatening air vehicles approaching our coastlines and our sovereign airspace. With that mission in mind, we cannot speculate; we have to go out and verify. Once we have verified

National Defence committee  Absolutely.

National Defence committee  Absolutely. Since it is a bi-national command, everyone is aware of what is happening, be it NORAD headquarters in Colorado Springs, the operation centre in Alaska, my equivalent, or the continental States in Tyndall, Florida. Everyone within the command is aware of what is happe

National Defence committee  The United States have a permanent base in Alaska.

National Defence committee  The aircraft entered the Canadian Air Defence Identification Zone, the CADIZ, and were approaching our territorial waters. Once they veered off, they headed towards the American identification zone. That was when fighter aircraft in Alaska took over.

National Defence committee  Based on our experience with such flights, to some extent we were expecting these aircraft, once they exited our identification zone, to head off probably in the direction of the ADIZ. So resources were in place.

National Defence committee  I don't know the details about their equivalent. Perhaps they don't call it a CADIZ. A number of countries, including Russia, England, Japan and the Nordic countries, have set up something similar. The goal is simple: it's to have a better warning system. If we wait until the ai

National Defence committee  Our planes?