Foreign Affairs committee  I would add to Mr. Levin's comments that it's not DND/CAF's position to issue a policy on whether the imagery should be released or not; that's a Government of Canada decision. Clearly in this case with Radarsat-2, I think it's important to point out that Radarsat-2 is a commerci

Foreign Affairs committee  The vetting of our training recipients is clearly very important. We've been doing that for many years in our other training ventures, pointing again to MTCP. For this particular activity, it's important to note that the Canadian armed forces will be training only formed units o

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm happy to entertain that question, Mr. Chair. I'm not qualified, unfortunately, to make a comparative analysis of our imagery versus our colleagues' imagery, and they probably wouldn't want me to make that comparative analysis. Nonetheless, Radarsat-2 is a very effective pro

Foreign Affairs committee  Responding on behalf of the department, and also to bring in my colleagues from Foreign Affairs, it's important to point out that this training mission in particular has been developed in very close collaboration with our friends at Foreign Affairs. Since last August we've been w