National Defence committee  Probably working within the Canadian military, it's the signals communication classification, and beefing up that area is where I would focus. I didn't answer your question on offensive warfare abroad.

National Defence committee  I'm not privy to exactly what National Defence does to defend its own buildings, let's say, but the question is, whatever it does, whether it would also be doing that for civilian infrastructure. So yes, interagency cooperation and discussion would be necessary, but it's that ele

National Defence committee  I apologize. Are you mentioning the cuts from the budget in February, that...?

National Defence committee  Have the cuts impacted the continental defence more than operations abroad, and in what balance? The thing really is that large platforms have not moved forward. I don't know that the cuts mentioned in the budget will have impacted the shipbuilding, but in my view, that's absolut

National Defence committee  No, the cuts will have had a direct impact on unmanned aerial vehicles, for instance, the JUSTAS program—joint unmanned surveillance—and other small programs like that, and that is important for the Arctic.

National Defence committee  Project management has been an issue since 1995 with the Chrétien government, and we just don't seem to have gotten beyond those cuts.

National Defence committee  For consistency with the United States, it would probably make sense for cyber-command to be within National Defence. The Department of Homeland Security does have cyber responsibilities, so that's consistent with Public Safety here, but then they have that extra dimension. At t

National Defence committee  With respect to the Arctic, conceptually I think it makes sense. Already there's surveillance information that's fed into NORAD, so then, if you go to the control side, you're dispatching ships to address whatever the unmanned aerial vehicle picked up on in the Northwest Passage,

National Defence committee  I think it's critical that we have an armed coast guard. It's a better use of resources to move in that direction, toward an armed coast guard that would then have Canadian Forces personnel on it. The reason I say that is that in an ideal world we would have Arctic/offshore patr

National Defence committee  Yes. Because I focus mainly on defence issues, I don't have a good answer for the amount of investment that's being done with respect to cyber-security, banking, finance, etc. I have read that it's not enough, but how much is enough? My concern is that there hasn't been, at lea

National Defence committee  I had many thoughts as I listened to you. I'm going to try to remember all the different components. First off, I think the fact that Canada is not mentioned in any of these documents is not surprising. We tend to be the overlooked ally. It would be something that we would have

National Defence committee  On the AOPS, the reason why—

National Defence committee  I apologize.

National Defence committee  I think it's something that Canada needs to think about in terms of what Russia is doing. It started in 2007 with the bomber patrols over the north and it seemed to be a return to the Cold War. It's difficult to make a distinction between what's bluster and domestic politics, and

National Defence committee  I apologize.