Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to focus a bit on what our deterrence posture is: our deterrence posture, NORAD's and NATO's.
In the last month, we've had NATO members shoot down Russian drones that violated NATO members' airspace. Clearly, there's a deterrence posture there: If the drones come in, they're going to be shot down. At the same time, NATO members did not shoot down three MiG fighter jets that entered Estonian airspace for 12 minutes, and that's a different deterrence posture from the one on drones.
Yesterday, four Russian military planes entered the air defence identification zone, and Canadian and American fighter jets were scrambled—I believe four jets were scrambled—to intercept and track these four military planes. Now, I acknowledge that these Russian planes were in international airspace, that they were operating in a predictable, regular fashion and that NORAD assessed that there was no threat.
What would NORAD do if those jets had crossed over from the ADIZ into either American or Canadian sovereign airspace? Would we allow them to fly for 12 minutes into our airspace, or would we shoot them down?