Foreign Affairs committee  I would say exactly the same thing, as I have said before in this committee. My view is that it is now a threat to Canada. Kim Jong-un and North Korea now have the capacity with their missiles, and the trajectory.... The algorithms and the American interceptor systems now prote

Foreign Affairs committee  Cyber?

Foreign Affairs committee  This is just common sense. It's the role of government to defend its people.

Foreign Affairs committee  That's like trying to understand Mr. Trump. Do they have influence? I think they have influence, as Kim said, on the adults in the room, on the generals and Secretary Tillerson. As they recruit, I think inevitably there will be more predictability in the process in the United

Foreign Affairs committee  Money does count here. I'm looking to see if the trend line is going to move forward; I think that's important. Our navy patrols the longest shoreline in the world. I think the maritime domain in this age of uncertainty really does matter even more to how we're going to manage th

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't think we're in for a period of rearmament because I'm not sure that's where Chancellor Merkel, if she is re-elected, wants to go. I think she very much remains a transatlanticist. She just doesn't, like many others, have a lot of respect for Mr. Trump. I do think Germany

Foreign Affairs committee  I think there are real odds to rearmament, though, in Asia. That's where I would watch. If you want to see where a lot of money is being spent on arms, it's in Asia and, as we saw from Mr. Trump's visit, in the Middle East.

Foreign Affairs committee  This is trite, but empty vessels make the most noise. There really is a lot of attention behind the scenes on China. The Trans-Pacific Partnership really was an effort to secure a set of trade rules in the Pacific to match what was going on in the security side. Behind the scenes

Foreign Affairs committee  No more than I read in the newspapers.

Foreign Affairs committee  I read Carlo's testimony. He's a friend of mine and the timeline he points out is accurate. If you think about it, trade negotiations take a long time. The original Canada-U.S. free trade agreement took us about four and a half years to negotiate, and NAFTA, which was, in a sense

Foreign Affairs committee  As Mr. Nossal said, to maintain the system, we must work with middle powers like Canada. Many people think like us, both here and in the United States. We have many allies in the United States, not only in Congress, but also in the administration, among the adults in the room.

Foreign Affairs committee  As Kim pointed out earlier, first of all, there's nobody to negotiate with on the American side. At the United States trade representative's office, which will be responsible for this, with support from the commerce department, there's just nobody home right now. That's part of o

Foreign Affairs committee  My observation for Canada, as a middle power, would be to keep engaged with everyone. I am convinced that the engagement with China is going to take some time. As you know, Mr. Harper also wanted to engage, but it took a long time. I don't think we're going to move quickly with C

Foreign Affairs committee  Sir, I'm not that confident it will be resolved. When I was posted in the United States at one point with Ambassador Frank McKenna, he turned to me when we were getting into the negotiation that led to the 2006 accord and asked when all this started. I phoned a friend who was the

Foreign Affairs committee  In terms of how the government has handled this, on both issues I would take it back to Brian Mulroney, who argued, I think correctly, that the most important relationship any prime minister has is that with the President of the United States. It's something that I think Mr. Trud