Thank you, Chair.
Thank you both for your presentations.
This talk of Cold War seems to me rather premature given the fact that we just dealt with an incident in Crimea, but I want to talk about that in the context of IBM, Professor Lagassé. Some members of the committee were at NORAD recently. The only suggestion of potential need for an IBM was the possibility that North Korea would somehow or other get its act together and send some missiles toward North America. Is there really a credible threat that we need to worry about that can't be dealt with in other ways, or are we forced to get into another arms race over IBMs with potential rogue states?
Are there other ways of dealing with these kinds of potential threats other than the suggestion we need another arms race? You know consistency is not always the best director of foreign policy, as we've seen many times.