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National Defence committee Absolutely I agree with you. We always need to start with private industry and what industry believes would be appropriate government support. In our country, we find that our national guard, and to some extent other military forces, can provide for road clearance, can provide
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul Stockton
National Defence committee Interoperability is key to mission effectiveness in NORAD. The F-35, by providing for a common airframe, will not only allow us to sustain interoperability in those terms, but all of the ancillary equipment—communications, everything else for avionics that will be modernized over
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul Stockton
National Defence committee The points of friction were that in hurricane Katrina, federal forces came in to the disaster response under the command of the President without sufficient dialogue with the governors about which specific disaster response operations were most important for that governor. There
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul Stockton
National Defence committee The states are able to use their equipment for disaster response either funded by our disaster response agency, FEMA, or sometimes funded by the Department of Defense. It's an example of the extremely complicated system we have built, which reflects our unique form of government.
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul Stockton
National Defence committee My standard response when I was in office was, “That's a problem for the Department of State and DFAIT to work out. In Defense, we don't have to tackle that one.” That remains my party line.
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul Stockton
National Defence committee To give you a more serious answer, we can leave that issue still to be resolved and nevertheless look for opportunities for information sharing, under the purview of NORAD in its maritime warning, with full participation by coast guard and all of the other critical components of
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul Stockton
National Defence committee With the full participation of the coast guard and the other lead agencies.
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul Stockton
National Defence committee This is being explored in the United States in both the private and the public sectors. I agree with President Obama on the all-of-the-above strategy: pursuing every promising development for generating capacity, knowing that the imperative to reduce carbon emissions is absolutel
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul Stockton
National Defence committee Yes, thank you.
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul Stockton
National Defence committee We need Canada's collaboration, absolutely. Neither nation can meet these challenges on its own, in my view. An additional investment is going to be required going forward. We don't have the capability that we need to deal with the increase in ship traffic carrying petroleum prod
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul Stockton
National Defence committee I completely agree. So let's figure out what we can do in both the immediate term and then over the longer term, for which sustained investment is going to be required.
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul Stockton
National Defence committee That is an outstanding question. I'd say it reinforces the need to have a collaborative approach. Clearly the risk posed by a scenario such as the one that you have offered—to have multiple disasters—is of lower probability than to have one, but it can't be discounted and therefo
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul Stockton
National Defence committee As in so many cases, the differences in the structure of government between Canada and the United States make it difficult to apply lessons from one nation to the other. We have a system in which each governor has his or her own air force and army and the state national guard, an
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul Stockton
National Defence committee It makes for enormous political complexity inside the United States. Thanks to the leadership of our governors, we were able to forge an agreement that provides for unity of effort between our governors and the Commander in Chief.
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul Stockton
National Defence committee I think of the Sun Sea incident. I think of risks that the maritime approaches to Canada and the United States would be exploited by adversaries, state and especially non-state; this needs to remain a focus of collaboration. I think of the law enforcement challenges posed by huma
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Paul Stockton