Government Operations committee  It gets even worse because we've allowed almost no room for failure within the individual departments. In other words, look at the penalty of what happens if someone has been delayed. In terms of the individuality within, for example, DND, we'll see the accusations. You can talk

Government Operations committee  We can take a little bit of a lesson from the Japanese. They're the one example we haven't talked about at this point. In terms of their major procurement, they have bipartisan acceptance. Part of it is because they have a shared view. It doesn't matter if it's the liberal democr

Government Operations committee  I'm going to jump in very quickly here. “Fair” has nothing to do with it when we're talking about the security of Canadians. The aerospace industry has fundamentally transformed itself since the 1970s, when, in fact, we could have different airframes competing. We misuse the te

Government Operations committee  I'll start off with a point that Richard raised, and that is the reality that aerospace threats today are a system of threats. In other words, we have to get out of this mindset that somehow dogfights and individual capabilities of the airframe we're talking about is what is goin

Government Operations committee  If we're looking for a process, the identification of a threat has to be central. Once again, on something that Richard said, the manner in which we look for platforms is also part of the problem. That gives further temptation of the politicization. What we need to understand is

Government Operations committee  The answer is no. You can go through what they're talking about in terms of NORAD modernization. That's the major effort that we see in terms of trying to respond to the entire northern missile threat, which is predicated on responding to an ICBM threat not a hypersonic. Hyperson

Government Operations committee  None whatsoever. Where we can learn, clearly, is the theatre in which the Norwegians began to operate. Norway was one of the very first countries to go with the F-35. Richard can correct me, but I believe it was either block I or block II. That was acquired by the Norwegians, and

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much. It's indeed my privilege to be here before the committee to talk about a critical issue. The first point I would like to leave with the committee is the fact that we are heading into a new security environment in which air power is going to be increasingly i

Public Safety committee  We never know if we're ready. At the University of Calgary we were hacked with ransomware even though we have computer science and individuals that do.... We weren't prepared for that. In fact, our entire computer system was shut down. Part of the problem is that until we kno

Public Safety committee  It goes beyond Russian involvement. It goes into international crime, and we suspect also that there is Chinese involvement. It is, of course, the issue of transparency. One of the difficulties we've always had, in terms of being able to determine just exactly what the involvemen

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. What we're seeing, and what we can see from some of the open reports, is that the Americans, of course, had to deal with the interference in their 2016 election. A British House of Commons committee examined what happened with Russian interference in Brexit, and there

Public Safety committee  The one area that Dr. Fergusson didn't have time to talk about is the maritime dimension of the approaches. He's talked very correctly about the hypersonics, but we know that Russian submarine activity has been increasing. We know that their deep diving capabilities are increasin

Public Safety committee  First of all, we have to make sure that we are getting that domain awareness. It's a 360-degree threat that is happening now. That means the entire entity of Canada is under threat of these new weapon systems. If the Russians believe that they have an advantage that we can't det

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. I'm very honoured to be asked here to contribute to this very important topic. In the five minutes, I have five points. The first point is that Russia is an existential threat to Canada and it is growing. The second point is that we have either ignored or

National Defence committee  The biggest negative of the Americans' taking steps, sometimes without our due consideration, is whether they always follow Canadian interests in terms of some of the different defence expenditures they have. I'll give you one example, which is the American move for an anti-ball