National Defence committee  The answer is simple. We have to be integrated with the United States. We do not have the capacity or the will to invest the dollars needed to develop our own, based on our research and development capabilities, to deal with, particularly, hypersonic threats. It's unclear, at l

National Defence committee  It's very difficult to know. One of the major issues with regard to the over-the-pole or over-the-horizon polar radar system they're talking about is dealing with atmospheric interference: the aurora borealis, to be blunt. The government did invest and did give a contract to Ra

National Defence committee  The answer, in my view, is more than consultation. In my view, the answer—as I was going to say in my opening remarks but I went too long—is that the defence investment in NORAD modernization relative to the Arctic will have significant impacts, and we don't know which specific p

National Defence committee  Certainly there's an argument that we haven't pulled our weight; that's without doubt. If you look at the Europeans, Sweden and Finland are about to be new members of NATO. Don't bring those into the equation, because they have a different strategic situation and threat situation

National Defence committee  Already?

National Defence committee  Yes, I know. That's okay. I can talk about these things later on.

National Defence committee  Thank you very much. It's Andrea's book and my book—both of us.

National Defence committee  Thank you. Thank you for the invitation to testify before the committee. I have three points to raise, which, hopefully, we can get into in some detail in the question period. The first concerns NORAD modernization and its impact on the Arctic, and other general issues about N

National Defence committee  That's highly debatable, Steve.

National Defence committee  Well, you have to understand that I am very “old school”, so I like to keep defence and security separate as much as possible. They overlap too much. Given modern cyber requirements and the digitization of the armed forces, though, cyber-defence is vitally important for the armed

National Defence committee  The future surface combatant—I think that's the term they use now—is an important add-on. The problem, in my view, is that the Royal Canadian Navy wants this capability, certainly to modernize but also to be able to integrate with our allies and, I'll put it this way, “sail the s

National Defence committee  A grade.... That's a tough question to answer. My answer is that by and large we have been marching in place. There has been an increased emphasis in investment, particularly in DRDC. For example, they have gotten more money to deal with research and development of technologies

National Defence committee  First, the answer is that we don't know. Second, on legal grounds in the United States, they are not required to defend us. Because of our co-location and our integration with the United States economically and elsewhere, it is in their interest to defend us. At the end of the

National Defence committee  Exactly.

National Defence committee  Very quickly, it does tie together, but who's going to take the lead on this? That's the key question here.