National Defence committee  It's to be a defensive alliance and to deter war.

National Defence committee  I don't how you are reading plain words, but there's absolutely no contradiction in those comments. What I was talking about there was NATO.... At the end of the Cold War, when NATO was trying to reinvent itself, they got into support for humanitarian operations and they got in

National Defence committee  Part of—

National Defence committee  —what I would—

National Defence committee  Well, I have a chance to answer, and I haven't finishing answering the question.

National Defence committee  No; I hadn't finished answering.

National Defence committee  Yes: bullying wins out.

National Defence committee  I'd be very happy to resubmit that testimony and let everybody read what I said. You've taken a small part of it and you've developed a bizarre interpretation of it. We're not talking about whether or not NATO should have military might. We're talking about whether or not NATO ne

National Defence committee  The problem is that if you take something out of context, and you ask a question, which actually demands a thoughtful answer, then you're going to get longer than a couple of seconds.

National Defence committee  Consider your questions.

National Defence committee  No, that's not what I said.

National Defence committee  I said that so long as there are nuclear weapons, the only utility of nuclear weapons is to deter their use by others. So the logical first step for NATO is to ditch its first use—its so-called “flexible response”—and ditch its statement, its posture, that nuclear weapons are nee

National Defence committee  First I want to clarify one point, though, coming out of what Dr. Byers said, and that relates to what Canada would have to do in order to ratify the treaty. I, of course, in my comments, talked about the fact that we would have to start the process of disassociating ourselves fr

National Defence committee  Thank you. Thank you very much for inviting me to address the committee today on Canada's involvement in NATO. My comments will relate to the extremely important and very topical issue of NATO's nuclear posture. I bring to these comments my professional expertise in the area o

Foreign Affairs committee  The first point I would want to make is that, in this case, we're not talking about illegal arms. We're talking about the damage that legal arms transfers are causing because the strict prohibitions in the Arms Trade Treaty aren't being followed. If we could get the legal trade u