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National Defence committee  I think there are skills and capacities within the NATO community that ought to be exploited, including when it comes to verification of agreements and those kinds of things. Yes, indeed. If diplomatic pressure can be brought to bear and harnessed from the NATO community, as the

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Ernie Regehr

National Defence committee  It certainly involves NATO's interests.

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Ernie Regehr

National Defence committee  I think it's appropriate to pursue a ballistic missile defence capability. That capability is far from mature at the moment. Point defence is reasonably mature and realistic, but the problem of area defence is much more.... There you've got an expert community that is very skepti

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Ernie Regehr

National Defence committee  To begin, I think you're absolutely right that NATO has keen interests in the South Asia situation, and also in the Middle East. I'm saying I don't think that NATO is the institutional context within which those issues are pursued. In the case of Iran, it's P5 plus 1. So that inv

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Ernie Regehr

National Defence committee  I think in the case of India and Pakistan—and I'm sure there are people here who can speak to that more directly—there isn't an ample supply of trust between those two countries. The instability in Pakistan is one thing, but the huge conventional disparity between the two is anot

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Ernie Regehr

National Defence committee  I think the evidence is that NATO is not designed particularly for that. Its primary role is collective defence. It has adopted the role of crisis management with some mixed degree of success. The cooperative security needs a much broader canvas than what NATO can provide.

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Ernie Regehr

National Defence committee  I think NATO does not have a particular role to play either in South Asia or in the Middle East. I think there's broad recognition that the solutions there need to be regional, and in the case of Iran and Israel in particular. At the NPT review conference in 2010, there was a p

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Ernie Regehr

National Defence committee  No. I think NATO has a responsibility to help create an environment within the Euro-Atlantic community that is conducive to reducing both sub-strategic and strategic nuclear weapons. That's where it has a role. That is partly a materials control problem, but it is more a diplomac

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Ernie Regehr

National Defence committee  I am not aware of the Chinese. The Russians certainly do. As long as they maintain non-strategic weapons, they will have fighter aircraft with that capability.

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Ernie Regehr

National Defence committee  It's part of a long-term strategy of simply maintaining a mix of nuclear capability from strategic—air, land, and sea—to a variety of non-strategic.The United States has gone down to virtually a single non-strategic weapon, the B61. Russia keeps a wider range.

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Ernie Regehr

National Defence committee  As I said before, I think it's very important that Canada continue to participate in military and other kinds of operations beyond its borders and that it has the capacity to make a contribution. Having said that, I think we need to adopt a bit of modesty about what can be accomp

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Ernie Regehr

National Defence committee  The United States has always had the intention of building some F-35s with dual capability; that is, they would have the capability of delivering these particular gravity bombs, which are the B61s. The B61 is also deliverable by the strategic bomber, the B-2 bomber. But the new f

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Ernie Regehr

National Defence committee  I feel compelled to introduce into this discussion at least some regard for the United Nations and the United Nations peacekeeping operations. They operate in very difficult circumstances, in very productive ways, in Sudan now—South Sudan as well as in the Nuba Mountains—and stil

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Ernie Regehr

National Defence committee  Thank you very much for that. I think we have to understand that NATO, as a collectivity, does not have a major role in direct arms control negotiations. NATO can play an important role in shaping the environment in which arms control negotiations take place, but those negotiati

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Ernie Regehr

National Defence committee  To quote the Lithuanian minister again, and perhaps too often, she also said, quite explicitly, after talking about the concerns about Russia, that there's no military threat from Russia.

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Dr. Ernie Regehr