National Defence Committee on April 19th, 2016

[Randall Garrison, NDP, Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, BC]

Actually, my questions are going to be for you, at this point. We raised the question of the budget for NORAD, and Lieutenant-General St-Amand said that we could get those figures. My request is that we be given, either through NORAD or through our analyst, some kind of information sheet or briefing sheet on the budgeting for NORAD.

[The Chair, Liberal, Stephen Fuhr]

Okay. We will make that request.

[Randall Garrison, NDP, Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, BC]

The second thing is that we agreed to give priority to this study of North American air readiness, but we also agreed at this committee that we would hear from Lieutenant-General Christine Whitecross and the CSEC director. We have certainly given priority to this study. I am wondering whether we will have an opportunity to hear from them soon, because we are about to take a week and go to Colorado, and various other things are coming up. I am concerned that this study not be at the expense of those two other things that we agreed to do as a committee.

[The Chair, Liberal, Stephen Fuhr]

We can certainly take that up in committee business, which we can do just before we depart.

Are there any more questions for the witness?

[Randall Garrison, NDP, Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, BC]

I'll pass on future questions.

[The Chair, Liberal, Stephen Fuhr]

Does anybody else have a question for Lieutenant-General St-Amand?

[James Bezan, Conservative, Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman, MB]

I am looking forward to seeing you down in Colorado Springs.

[The Chair, Liberal, Stephen Fuhr]

Sir, thank you very much for your time. We appreciate your coming today, and we look forward to seeing you in a few weeks.

I'll suspend for two minutes, and then we can go on with committee business.

[Proceedings continue in camera]