National Defence committee  I think that from a defence military perspective you always want systems to systems and you want redundancy. Having the satellite there is going to be fabulous, but you need every other bit along the way too, so that you have that redundancy in something as sensitive and importan

National Defence committee  On the Canada First defence strategy, there are a number of investments across, whether it's with regard to our naval, our land, or our air capabilities. Those were all outlined in CFDS 2008. As we look forward, we will be bringing particular attention to things like cyber and s

National Defence committee  I'll just say a quick word, Mr. Chairman, and that is to say that looking forward, one of the things the Canada First defence strategy refresh will look at, in particular, is cyber. This has obviously emerged since 2008 as much more serious. We recognize that cyber is now another

National Defence committee  Thanks for the question. Cyber is an emerging domain, and I think all countries are trying to figure out the best methodology for dealing with it. The United States is almost pretty much, I don't want to say alone, but singular among the allies in having a stand-alone cybercomma

National Defence committee  Mexico is a key partner for us. Clearly, they have a very difficult and challenging situation, which unhappily they share with some of their neighbours, too. If you look at Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, we all track it. Public Safety does it principally, but we keep our eyes on trac

National Defence committee  Mr. Chairman, if I may, I would like to say a word, too. I think what you've pointed out here is a confluence of actors and interests in the contemporary security environment that is very worrying, because non-state actors, terrorists work with states, states work with terroris

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question on the Permanent Joint Board on Defence. It was Bob Gates who called it the peanut butter and jelly board. The PJBD since 1940—it just shows what a succinct press release can do—generated quite an extraordinary relationship. We are now on, I think, our

National Defence committee  If I might, Mr. Chairman, I'll answer and maybe General Rousseau will want to jump in. I mentioned previously—sorry, Mr. Harris—one of the interesting things was that NORAD expanded to look at maritime domain awareness too, which is very good because that brings the combined reso

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, let me apologize in advance that I'm not the assistant deputy minister for materiel, who could give you a very detailed answer, but I will give you a general answer on that. First of all, you talked about the long lead times. One of the interesting things in defence p

National Defence committee  The exercise regimes are extremely important. You have the domain awareness. You're looking out to try to anticipate if there's going to be a problem or a crisis. Obviously, that's a little bit of what Christian was talking about, queueing the resources, so if you have a sense th

National Defence committee  —trying to figure out exactly how to mitigate the threat while being ready.

National Defence committee  If I might, Mr. Chairman, it's always hard to know where to invest, but I think prevention is what you really want to do. When you look at things like whether it's ballistic missile technology proliferation, nuclear weapons capability proliferation, chemical, biological, Canada i

National Defence committee  In terms of the capacity you're talking about, I'm not sure if you mean just militarily or more broadly.

National Defence committee  More broadly then. Certainly you're right. Things take a while to come online. That's where cooperation is so important, because as we look at some of the immediate challenges—and this isn't the purview of the department of any of the folks here—say the environmental issues for e

National Defence committee  Thanks for the question. We're always trying to optimize cooperation. That is absolutely the right terminology. One of the things that might be a little different than, say, the health domain is that the organizations here and agencies, whether it's Canada Border Services Agenc