National Defence committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Shipley, and for your kind comments. The Canadian footprint in the NORAD enterprise in the U.S. is about 300 personnel—125 personnel in Colorado Springs and the rest spread among the regions, the sectors, and the AWACS. They operate U.S. systems,

National Defence committee  The modernized F-18 is a very effective weapons system vis-à-vis current NORAD roles and responsibilities. It's not perfect, but it's what we have, and it's performing really well.

National Defence committee  The transport airplanes are used to move personnel and resupply our many FOLs, forward operating locations, and deployment locations. They provide logistical support for the enterprise.

National Defence committee  What I'm inferring from your question is whether or not the system is effective against North Korea.

National Defence committee  North Korea is viewed as a real and practical threat by our U.S. friends, yes.

National Defence committee  We did not in fact implement a no-fly zone over Ottawa. What I said is that we put aircraft that were flying—we diverted directly over Ottawa—towards Ottawa initially to do a combat air patrol, an oversight, on top of the city of Ottawa, in case we had any indication that this

National Defence committee  Those were measures that were put in place after September 11. They are practised regularly. We didn't have to do anything extra to divert these fighters on that day because we exercise regularly and we have all of our tactics, techniques, and procedures well in place and well

National Defence committee  Yes, sir, those are standard procedures. To reconcile my testimony about there being less threats vis-à-vis what we're doing, we know more about the threats, but we don't know everything about the threats and every situation. Therefore, we need to be ready so that another 9/11

National Defence committee  Right now in terms of Operation Noble Eagle and northern sovereignty operations, we are fully integrated with the U.S. We don't have incompatible technology at this time; all that to say, that might not be the case in the future.

National Defence committee  Thank you for your question, sir. It's good to see you again as well. There are various stages in a ballistic missile engagement. The first stage is the intelligence and warning, or the indicators and warning. When a cycle of provocation is initiated, at the onset I may or may n

National Defence committee  Minutes.

National Defence committee  First of all, on its capability and intent, by launching a three-stage rocket, they have demonstrated the capability of touching pretty much anywhere in North America. As far as intent goes, North Korea is seen as an unpredictable regime. We have very little information on its in

National Defence committee  In a command centre?

National Defence committee  I would say generally about 25%.

National Defence committee  Yes, Canadian. We have personnel in all domains except at the ballistic missile defence domain.