National Defence committee  The challenge is that article 5 means an attack upon one equals an attack upon all, so NATO's position has been to not allow countries in that are currently at war. In the membership processes of the 1990s and early 2000s, there was pressure for all aspirants to settle their border disputes.

National Defence committee  Actually, it was Canada and its allies that inflicted article 5 upon the Americans. At the time, the American administration was ambivalent about having article 5 invoked. It was Canadians and other NATO allies invoking article 5 for the first time—the only time.

National Defence committee  It's a really challenging problem. We've known this not for a week but for eight years, from that investigation into Trump's 2016 campaign. We know this about Brexit; there was Russian influence on that. Again, as I said, it requires greater clarity from the media about where the information is coming from, being more careful about repeating false information.

National Defence committee  This bit of last week's news helps to provide evidence that all these things we've been saying thus far are true.

National Defence committee  I can't speak to the specifics of those 62 LAVs. Obviously, more in the hands of the Ukrainians sooner is better.

National Defence committee  I think some of our allies have made the decision that it would be better having them used to fight the Russians now than to fight the Russians later. The idea of giving them to the Ukrainians to win the war with Russia now is better than waiting five or 10 years for us to use them in Latvia.

National Defence committee  The challenge is that everybody has learned how valuable these things are. As I'm sure you know, it takes a while to procure things. How long would the gap be from our shipping everything off? I can see why the army doesn't want to ship off everything, and then wait 10 years for the new tanks and the new howitzers.

National Defence committee  I think the Wagner group is a good example. The challenge of civil-military relations is that we very rarely know, right before something happens, that it will happen. When there's a coup attempt, you don't really know who's going to win because you don't know who's going to shoot and who's not willing to shoot.

National Defence committee  I can't be hard and fast on the exact specifics, but I will say that traditionally the number has been 1:3. For every one person killed in battle three have been wounded. The Americans and our allies in Afghanistan were very good about medical care, so that ratio is 1:10. For one killed there were 10 wounded.

National Defence committee  No, because our other adversary that we think of is China, and our army is not really designed to fight a war with China. It would not be called upon to send troops to China. Our air force and our navy are more positioned towards the Pacific, so I think the division of labour kind of makes sense.

National Defence committee  I don't have the latest statistics on this. I think we're probably in the middle of the pack. There are lots of countries that made bigger promises than we did and haven't delivered. We've made a fair number of commitments. Is it proportional to our economy compared to the other folks?

National Defence committee  I understand that, but the challenge is that procurement takes time, and everybody is in the same line for Stingers and for anti-tank missiles and all the rest. We can't jump the line of every weapons procurement that is coming out of other countries, and we don't have the capability for making Stingers, for instance.

National Defence committee  I agree with the larger sentiment here. It has already impacted us. We've been having this debate about inflation for the past few years in Canada. Where did that inflation come from? It came from, partly, a spike in food prices because the Russians attacked the breadbasket of Ukraine, a major grain producer.

National Defence committee  I can't speak to the very specifics of it. I think that generally we send our best equipment to the field, and I would say that in my conversations that I've had with folks in the battle group, the reports about various things are a bit overstated in terms of the lack of resources.

National Defence committee  I can't speak to the specifics of the supply chain, but again, the idea of the alliance is that we're supposed to be interoperable. We're supposed to be able to have our allies helping us do things. The way the battle group is organized is that we don't have Canadians in every position because we have allies in some of these positions.