Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
The motion is:
That, in light of the recent incident of a Russian military aircraft approaching Canada's Airspace, the Standing Committee on National Defence receive a briefing from Department of National Defence officials on: the current resources available to meet such threats, the role of NORAD, military communications between the Canadian and Russian Governments, and the detailed defence strategy to defend against similar future threats.
Mr. Chairman, this has come about not only because of the comments of the Minister of Defence, but in light of some comments made by the American general for NORAD, who seemed to be at odds with those comments. I thought it might be helpful, and given the fact that we are looking at an Arctic strategy, this might be able to dovetail into that as well. It could be very helpful.
I think Mr. Bachand has what I would consider a friendly amendment.