National Defence committee  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for inviting me here today. Russia is becoming progressively more paranoid, as a considerable number of ex-Soviet bloc countries have applied for membership in either the EU or NATO. This is unnerving Russia, as it needs to maintai

National Defence committee  We're an international security consulting company, and most of our work is done in hostile countries around the world.

National Defence committee  I spent 23 years in the British Special Forces. I immigrated to Canada and I've had my company going now for 21 years.

National Defence committee  I think it will be difficult to achieve without Russia's consent because they hold veto powers at the UN and they can really dictate what they want to do. They could force themselves into that mission in whatever way they wanted to portray themselves, and I don't see how the UN c

National Defence committee  Yes. It's going to be difficult because we don't know what the Russians' intentions are. They stopped in the Donbas region. At this time next week they could be somewhere else. We don't know what they're going to do. The fact that NATO was inactive and didn't really stop them fro

National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  Every day we—the west and NATO, I'll just combine the two—do nothing except on the political levels, which probably none of us will ever know about at that particular time, they are getting more and more adventurous, and they will do more and more. They have the power to do that.

National Defence committee  I think he is testing the water. The only thing I can see changing is if he comes out of power and someone else takes over who is a little easier to deal with. That doesn't seem to be on the horizon at this particular moment in time. The less we do to stop him from doing it, the

National Defence committee  Warfare has been the way it's been for many years. This is a new spinoff from actual war and what we're used to planning for and what our leaders are used to dealing with over time. These forays into these different countries, we get them in Canada but it doesn't mean to say we'r

National Defence committee  We need to redefine the battle space, and that's why I'm talking about military advancements. I'd like to go offline a minute. We're responsible for carrying out an extensive audit of one of the province's water supply systems. All our SCADA systems were not protected in any sh

National Defence committee  We are vulnerable now, today.

National Defence committee  Yes. I'm not even going to go on to our nuclear power stations.

National Defence committee  Do you want to answer that question?

National Defence committee  Yes. I have done that.

National Defence committee  The main risk is Russia going one step further. In other words, what the Ukraine is worried about, as well as the other former Soviet Union bloc countries, is the fact that Russia is going to take back more areas within those countries, to enable it to have a bigger operating bat