National Defence committee  I totally agree, sir.

National Defence committee  With some warning, or without warning?

National Defence committee  With some warning, the Canadian commander of the Canadian region would relocate F-18 forces, possibly to Comox, in that case.

National Defence committee  In that regard, what would happen is that we would have a detection, and we would receive in Colorado Springs and in Winnipeg, which again is Canadian region headquarters for NORAD, the information that there is a problem. Given that we would not have the time to relocate Canad

National Defence committee  That's the other question.

National Defence committee  I'm afraid that's out of my lane, Madam. With respect to NORAD, what we are doing is watching and thinking about the implications for North America of something bad happening in that area. On the rest, I'm not really qualified to provide an opinion or an answer.

National Defence committee  Think of a scenario where the behaviour of a state is causing the U.S. to react, and all of a sudden we have something going on here. We have to think about these things. In an extreme scenario where it could go to [Inaudible--Editor] in that area, it is not unlikely that North A

National Defence committee  There's only one screen that we're not allowed to see, and it's the BMD screen. That's it.

National Defence committee  I would say so.

National Defence committee  That's accurate. Yes, sir.

National Defence committee  It's in the ballpark.

National Defence committee  But it is the system. The Americans will tell you that it is designed for a missile from North Korea or Iran; it's not designed for a country like China or Russia. It is a limited system to control those rogue states that might launch one or two and still cause vast devastation t

National Defence committee  Absolutely.

National Defence committee  In the context of NORAD, we've always looked north and we look at the Arctic as being an avenue of approach as opposed to a base of operation. We operate from the Arctic to do our job, but it's an avenue of approach for us. In the maritime domain, we have this mission, which is m

National Defence committee  Yes, I concur with that. Just going back to the current configuration of our warning system, configured for first-generation cruise missiles, we're now facing the latest generation of cruise missiles with longer ranges and low observability. That is challenging us. We have to cat