National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and colleagues. A good number of you have been involved with NATO Parliamentary Assembly's activities along the way. I'm here as a resource, to talk about parliamentarians' participation in NATO Parliamentary Assembly. David has talked about some of the

National Defence committee  We're not part of missile defence in North America, so what the U.S. is doing we can only surmise in part. I think it's hugely important that we change that.

National Defence committee  Yes. As a NATO member, we're participating in missile defence in Europe. Then we say, well for some reason we haven't participated in missile defence in North America.

National Defence committee  I think it's just a political reality that it happened. Certainly from the point of view of the nations as part of NATO, we participate fully in a number of issues there that we might pretend back home we're not as actively involved in.

National Defence committee  I think Mr. Ferguson mentioned that that we'd be chasing, from the European point of view, to try to protect North America this way. The Americans know that. They would have liked at one time to have us part of this, but they are going ahead. They have monitoring in Alaska, and i

National Defence committee  It's an interesting field.

National Defence committee  The “unanimous” is an important part of that.

National Defence committee  Mr. Garrison, just to remind you, there is a political group within the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, and there's a wide range of points of view expressed in there. We may not have a disarmament group, but we have a political group that discusses the issues you'd be looking for.

National Defence committee  Certain groups within the NATO Parliamentary Assembly have had an opportunity to visit China. China is moving ahead very rapidly with respect to rearmament and improved armament in a lot of different areas. How much they want to show others is always a question, but we know there

National Defence committee  Our colleagues from Estonia explained to us how devastating a cyber-attack can be, because they're so heavily dependent on modern technology. It can just close everything down, from getting money out of bank machines to the lights. Everything stops. There is research on that. NAT

National Defence committee  Can we make it back to the Diefenbunker?

National Defence committee  We have already taken a number of trips to the Arctic and NATO is very involved, especially now that countries like China have decided that the Arctic is important. We have to be on top of what is going on and what they are doing. For that reason, I have made at least two trips

National Defence committee  Exactly.

National Defence committee  Do you want to take this discussion as to how we can communicate this on NATO's work?

National Defence committee  Our group here in Canada is involved in NATO communications, especially those aimed at young people. Leona Alleslev, as chair of the Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association, has worked in Brussels in the field of NATO communications. The current chair is from Italy and he has jus