National Defence committee Yes, ma'am. We try to bridge any defects or deficiencies we come across with capabilities. The final answer—I think it's about using shared services—is that it has not impacted our relationships with allies. The Royal Canadian Navy wants to be a partner to enable shared services
February 25th, 2015Committee meeting
RAdm John Newton
National Defence committee All right, I'm going to have to be quick, right?
February 25th, 2015Committee meeting
RAdm John Newton
National Defence committee The navy, I think, led the decision making on the retirement of our aging classes of ships. We saw what our fixed-budget envelopes are. We saw the very aging infrastructure of those platforms that were built in another era with different damage control systems, engine configurati
February 25th, 2015Committee meeting
RAdm John Newton
National Defence committee Sir, the navy is pretty proud of the fact that it has a long heritage operating in the north and leading the rest of government to solve Arctic problems. HMCS Labrador was a navy ship in 1954. It cruised the Northwest Passage, helped build the DEW line, and put Canada in the no
February 25th, 2015Committee meeting
RAdm John Newton
National Defence committee Yes, sir. I am taking several million data points of information and resolving them down to about 2,000 ships on the sea, and then I give that shipping plot to NORAD. Do I know if somebody at the other end is looking at the shipping plot or do they actually wake up when there's a
February 25th, 2015Committee meeting
RAdm John Newton
National Defence committee Oh, we're thrilled to death with the Halifax class modernization. It is moving very quickly toward full-up success in so many different ways. The capacities of new technology undoubtedly give you more capability than you had in older systems. The number of ships is a quality in
February 25th, 2015Committee meeting
RAdm John Newton
National Defence committee Just for a way of a reference point, the sea days of the navy have not decreased, but sea days are only one measure of our readiness. I have reduced the number of major ship exercises down to two major ship exercises every year instead of three. But in doing that, I make the majo
February 25th, 2015Committee meeting
RAdm John Newton
National Defence committee The reservists augment the regular force crew. There is no reserve navy or regular force navy. We have moved to a “one navy” model and a “one navy” motto. We used to have the Kingston class completely crewed by reservists. We're moving away from that model, because it's unsustain
February 25th, 2015Committee meeting
RAdm John Newton
National Defence committee Yes, sir.
February 25th, 2015Committee meeting
RAdm John Newton
National Defence committee No, sir, we're actually trying to increase them. The reserves are managed in three different blocks: Class A, Class B, and Class C reserves. Class A reserves are the foundational element of the reserves; they are the majority of our reservists. These are the citizen-soldiers who
February 25th, 2015Committee meeting
RAdm John Newton
National Defence committee It helps populate the military picture—
February 25th, 2015Committee meeting
RAdm John Newton
National Defence committee Yes, we will take the military element of the overall picture and provide it to NORAD. NORAD is always vacuuming up the picture through the United States Navy, through the U.S. Coast Guard, and through an agency called MIFC LANT. We contribute to that continental picture. We cert
February 25th, 2015Committee meeting
RAdm John Newton
National Defence committee Yes, sir. It's a combination of two centres. It's the MSOC paired with the joint operations centre which is my headquarters' watch floor.
February 25th, 2015Committee meeting
RAdm John Newton
National Defence committee Yes, sir.
February 25th, 2015Committee meeting
RAdm John Newton
National Defence committee Well, there's the whole-of-government. There's the Canadian sovereignty piece—
February 25th, 2015Committee meeting
RAdm John Newton