Mr. Chair, I think these incidents have showcased the importance of NORAD for the defence of our continent.
The information that was going back and forth was just as we practised and just as we trained. There was the consultation going back and forth and the sharing of awareness as to where certain objects were. For us, it proved the criticality of NORAD in terms of understanding what was approaching our airspace.
In all cases, they went through American airspace first, so if we had not had those linkages—if we had not had those relationships and if we had not had this binational command—we could very easily have been surprised with something popping up in our airspace.