National Defence committee  I don't think I would have anything else to add, sir.

National Defence committee  Certainly, in terms of defending our networks, the networks that we operate, we have quite a good understanding of what enemy capabilities are. We think we can deal with those attacks or events as they would arise. One of the distinctions we talked about a bit earlier was, what

National Defence committee  There's the capability in terms of understanding what goes on in our networks now and what we think we would need in the future. The capability to defend our systems now, I think, we're quite good at, but we do recognize that in the future we would need to look at that. I'll pas

National Defence committee  Absolutely, sir. Thank you very much for the question. We did touch a bit on it before, but this will allow me to put more definition to it. Actually, most militaries recognize cyber as an important domain to be cognizant about, to understand, to at least defend, if not use in a

National Defence committee  My most immediate concern is how they would disrupt our ability to command and control, but any disruption to the power grid, or anything like that which would stop us from being able to operate in the environment that we are in would also be of interest. Certainly those tools ar

National Defence committee  Thank you for your question. I think it's a very important one that goes deep into the business of intelligence. Sub-Lieutenant Delisle, or Mr. Delisle now, did not work specifically for me, but was an intelligence officer who worked for the Royal Canadian Navy. Intelligence i

National Defence committee  Thank you very much for the question, sir. I specifically referred to a state posing a threat to Canada. There are terrorist entities that would like to harm Canada, whether it's by a military threat, an asymmetric threat or a threat to safety. The way we organize the definitio

National Defence committee  Thank you. I will start and you can jump in if you want at one point. I mentioned the right of innocent passage in the context of submarines. If submarines are submerged, that's not considered innocent passage. They have to be sailing on the surface.

National Defence committee  Yes. As we relate back to the Arctic, when ships do go into the Arctic, that ask permission, whether we think they're covert for something else, that fishing boat with lots of antennas, we have a fairly good idea of what is actually on that boat. We do track specifically where th

National Defence committee  It's a very important question, because whereas most of the complex threats emanated at one point from nation states, from states that could build it, some of it now could migrate to less capable nations, or even groups, as you mentioned. For weapons of mass destruction, includi

National Defence committee  I would possibly reinforce the concept of policing and monitoring, and the advance that we have made, first with Canadian technology in terms of the RADARSAT-2 that's up there now, but then the RADARSAT Constellation mission that's going to be operational in 2018, that will allow

National Defence committee  If you don't mind, I'll start with your question. Military capabilities are developed to respond to the worst-case threats, so attacks on North America, attacks on Canada. I said that there are no such threats today, but as I mentioned before, sometimes intent changes very quic

National Defence committee  The way we track submarines starts well before they are anywhere close to Canada. We try to keep an eye through imagery and other means if they are in port, and that's usually even something like Google Earth. You can probably find something like that. Once they move, then we try

National Defence committee  The best way to do this is to actually see when they leave the port and as they go in specific constraining areas in the ocean. you know that they were there. It is a system of systems that we participate in.

National Defence committee  If I may answer that question, Madam, we do not see a threat to the Arctic that would be different from a threat to the rest of Canada. There is nothing except for its pristine nature and all of this, but there is no reason that a foreign actor on the military side would attack t