National Defence committee  Toxic industrial materials are certainly the most probable threat in a CBRN portfolio that we would face, I believe, in Canada. It's the most probable. To be more general in a response to your question, sir, CJOC isn't responsible per se for threat assessments. It is the chief o

National Defence committee  Sir, I only have a cursory knowledge of Bill C-51—

National Defence committee  —and it's my sense that it would be the chief of defence intelligence who would be the recipient of any benefits that would come from that. I understand there may also be an operational element to Bill C-51 and maybe that would have an effect on us as we work with our other gover

National Defence committee  It's a very good question, sir. Our regional joint task force commander, who is based in Joint Task Force Central Toronto, and his staff are linked in very closely with the games' organizing committee. He has representatives who work with the integrated security unit that's I b

National Defence committee  No, it's regular force at this time, sir.

National Defence committee  Sir, I'm not in a position to comment on their training other than to say that I'm aware that out of the Philippines deployment, for example, there were no post-operative points that identified les lacunesin the training. There were a lot of post-op points that came out that are

National Defence committee  No. None. Zero. In the case of Vancouver 2010, that was a bit pre-arranged. We understood what the threat was going to be and there were some of these advanced CBRN capabilities that the U.S. had. They were, I'll say, pre-positioned on their side of the border, so that if an eve

National Defence committee  I'm sorry. I'm not really familiar with Saint-Jean, but in general, yes.

National Defence committee  Yes, absolutely.

National Defence committee  I'm not familiar with....With that comment, I'd require more than 15 seconds to—

National Defence committee  We at CJOC provide a demand signal, so we say that this is the amount of surveillance we're looking for in various areas of the country, including the north. Then it's up to the force generators to satisfy that. For example, the demand signal we sent today is being satisfied by s

National Defence committee  Sir, it would be disingenuous for me to say that we can ensure one hundred per cent security. What I can assure you is that we are in extremely tight coordination with those Canadian agencies that provide intelligence to us, that are the first line of defence in Canada for unders

National Defence committee  The first thing is that we all shared in the grief of the events of October, all of us in uniform. But then everyone seemed galvanized after that to get the uniform back on and to represent Canada, and to protect Canada and Canadians the best we can. I doubt that anything good co

National Defence committee  It's a really big question and I'll try to compact an answer into the time available. The process consists of two parts for responding domestically. There's either a planned response and it receives approval at a high level, potentially from the minister, down to the direction o

National Defence committee  Responding to the attack was a matter for law enforcement. Assessing the threat is something that we do. We were actually reassessing our threat posture to the events of Saint-Jean on October 20. We were doing that on October 22 when the unfortunate events here in Ottawa occurred