Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank our witnesses for appearing today and sharing their ideas and experience with us.
I want to just go back to Mr. Harris' comment on the Cold War, and as someone of Ukrainian heritage, I am quite concerned about what is happening in Ukraine, in the Crimean peninsula, the illegal action, and the completely inflammatory language coming from Russia at this point in time to other territories outside of Ukraine as well. I felt the chill of what could possibly be a new Cold War yesterday when I was placed on the list with a number of other colleagues in the House of Commons. It is a great concern to all of us that we are entering a new era with the Putin regime, and as long as he's there, Russian imperialism is alive and well. As a neighbouring state to Russia, we have to be quite concerned about that mentality.
I was interested in the discussion we are having on the Arctic because this is not only an area in which we want to demonstrate our sovereignty and demonstrate our interest, but also we have our responsibility under NORAD. Now that NORAD has been expanded to be both maritime and air, I want to get more feedback as to whether or not we have enough radar and satellite capabilities to properly protect the North American continent, whether or not we have enough from an air force standpoint to do the proper surveillance there.
We have already started talking about Arctic/offshore patrol vessels, and you mentioned, Dr. Sloan, the issue of the submarines. Apart from what we can do with our own submarines, what about submarine surveillance in the Arctic?
I put that to both of you.