National Defence committee  But did they tell you what they meant by “participation”?

National Defence committee  That's the key question: what do we mean by participation? Certainly if Canada went to the United States and said that we think the effective defence of the United States can be enhanced if we provide them with territory or if we allow certain.... This is the issue of the third s

National Defence committee  Clarify for me. I'm not sure what you mean by “silos”.

National Defence committee  In terms of Canadian security interests, we should prefer NORAD without silos, and for one specific reason, which is that NORAD is the only perspective that exists where people like General Jacoby, and American officers as well as Canadian, think “North America” rather than think

National Defence committee  A lot of this is highly classified, so they don't tell us academics. But what I would say to you is that in the North American and the traditional NORAD aerospace warning assessment mission—integrated tactical warning and attack assessment—the primary mission, based upon by and

National Defence committee  In 25 words or less? Well, we're not going to go back in, because we've never been in. Let's start with the one basic assumption that we all start with. Somehow we all believe the Americans want us. Well, perhaps the Americans don't. They're not interested in Canadian involvemen

National Defence committee  General Jacoby is the commander of NORAD. He has a North American perspective. What I would say is that he drank the NORAD Kool-Aid. Missile defence is a U.S. Strategic Command mission. His role in NORTHCOM NORAD is direct command of one part of what will become the global U.S. m

National Defence committee  I'll answer this very simply. It's a wonderful rhetorical policy, but space is weaponized. Don't think it isn't. Satellites in orbit with fuel can be used to collide with other satellites. A missile defence system can strike at satellites in space. A variety of issues are coming

National Defence committee  Do you want me to answer?

National Defence committee  Whatever “sixth generation” means relative to “fifth generation”, I would suggest to you that when we talk about those, we're talking 20 years down the road. The F-35 fifth-generation fighter is the only capability that exists out there, not only for Canada and the United States,

National Defence committee  It's very difficult to cost-estimate. The idea that somehow we can go to the United States and say that we want to participate and we can assign personnel and NORAD will get a window into the U.S. missile defence systems and get access to more planning, to intercept strategies, e

National Defence committee  On the surface, the natural conclusion, given the nature of the threat, which is not clear right now—it's still evolving relative to North Korea and the question of the future of Iran's nuclear program and its ballistic missile program—and relative to the pressing need to replace

National Defence committee  Beyond the important requirement to protect their own systems from cyber-attack through the military, I'm of the view that really this is not a military function. Certainly, in terms of North American defence or homeland defence in Canada and the United States, the military, by n

National Defence committee  Briefly, satellites can do a lot for you, but they can't do everything that most people think they can do. The current system that does provide limited wide area surveillance of the Arctic is RADARSAT-2. It provides all-weather capabilities 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

National Defence committee  Thank you. As noted by my colleague, Dr. Charron, who's a lead scholar for the “NORAD in Perpetuity?” study, this brief presentation draws directly from some of our findings. As I have no doubt that you are aware, the subject of the defence of North America is an extremely broad