National Defence committee  No, sir. In the case of the Iraq jets, right now they are Cold Lake CF-18s. I'm saying that back home here, if need be, we can centrally manage the pool of CF-18s we have in Canada. Should the mission go long, if we need to rotate the jets—because as you know, the CF-18 is a hig

National Defence committee  No. I'm sorry, but I don't have the hours offhand. I would have to get back to you. As General Wheeler highlighted numerous times, NORAD is our first and primary mission. We secure the NORAD mission, make sure we keep everything we need for the NORAD front, and then after that w

National Defence committee  The electronic warfare environment is the use of the electromagnetic spectrum for one's advantage. What we're trying to do, or what different nations will try to do, is negate the use of the electromagnetic spectrum to other countries so they retain sole use of it. That's the gam

National Defence committee  Yes, sir. There are 27 CF-18s in Bagotville. We use the fighters. We control all the Canadian fighters in one large pool. When required, it doesn't matter which wing is tasked to go overseas. We work together. We work as a great team to make sure that we fulfill—

National Defence committee  What's important to understand is that, while we often think of Bagotville for its 27 F-18s and 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron, which is the F-18 squadron, really we have a huge area of units, subunits, and divisions that support that. In fact, we have close to 1,700 folks support

National Defence committee  The managed readiness plan is key to our force generation capability, for us to train our folks before they are ready to answer the government's call to deploy anywhere in Canada or the world, either as part of NATO or, as we see right now, in Iraq. Really, it consists of 3 Wing

National Defence committee  Thank you, Ms. Michaud. I believe that Major-General Wheeler covered this. Thank you.

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair and honourable members of Parliament, thank you for the honour of appearing here today. As the commander of the Canadian Forces Base Bagotville and 3 Wing, I would like to provide you with an overview of the work my team does every day as part of the NORAD mission.