Mr. Chair, there are benefits to NORAD. There are certainly aspects of it that are worth sharing. Allies can share capabilities for deterrence, for surveillance, and for detection, but finally Canada always needs to maintain the capacity and the ability to respond to threats as it sees fit, and also to engage or to ask for the assistance of allies. We do not want threats emanating from within Canada to our allies, and so we need to be a good neighbour.
On September 15th, 2010. See this statement in context.