National Defence committee  I would reiterate that I think the goal of our efforts and NATO efforts was twofold...to reassure our partners. From every report that we've had, whether it's from the Romanian CHOD or others, I think they very much appreciated the opportunity to operate with us. There was a lot

National Defence committee  I think we're recognized, certainly, for the skill and acumen of our soldiers, sailors, and aviators at every account. We would look for leadership opportunities because I think we have a lot to offer, and the fact that we were able to seamlessly do that on very short notice in t

National Defence committee  You hit on an area and question that I'm going to have to take under advisement. With respect to cyber-threats, NATO recognizes, as you pointed out, that this is an area that we need focus on more. Certain NATO allies have quite advanced capabilities—there's a varying level. But

National Defence committee  If I may turn your question, because I think you were framing it as a challenge, I'd say that we actually had quite good intelligence on exactly what was going on in the region. More specifically, with certain allies and with the sharing of information, I was able to see on a day

National Defence committee  If we're talking about sharing intelligence information outside of NATO members, I can't specifically comment on that. I know that various countries.... I am not familiar enough with Ukraine's integral intelligence capability to offer whether they were challenged in that area or

National Defence committee  In answer to your first question, there's no impact to the standing roles and missions of the F-18 in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Our NORAD commitments are met and both of these deployments fall within our expeditionary capability with redundancy. That's actually an area that I

National Defence committee  Central to the success of NATO is the ability of the countries to work together—the interoperability that we speak about quite often. Any opportunity that you have to exercise together is particularly useful. In a NATO context, while we exercise frequently with them, we haven't

National Defence committee  Presently, we have 140 RCAF personnel in Lithuania, and that number includes the air crews and the ground crew and support personnel; there are approximately 240 people on board the ship; and the land element is a company-sized element of approximately 140 personnel. There are al

National Defence committee  It is 140 of the 4,000 who are Canadian.

National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  We'd certainly rely, in a NATO context.... If you're talking about medical help for injuries in training, that backbone is there, as every exercise would have it. I would just comment, though, that we're there exercising, doing things similar to what we'd be doing in Petawawa or

National Defence committee  I don't think we're anticipating operational stress injuries from this type of exercise. But certainly, when people come back from this deployment, they will be screened as if they had come back from an operational deployment.

National Defence committee  If we talk about fourth and fifth generation, no, they're not stealth.

National Defence committee  Stealth—

National Defence committee  Fourth generation I'm aware of, but beyond that I don't have any independent knowledge.