National Defence committee  I can answer the question, sir, if you want. If you look at the occupied territories—and I wish I had my map here—a significant portion of the Ukrainian territory, or the border that used to be the Ukrainian border with Russia, right now is not controlled by Ukrainian forces at

National Defence committee  To respond to the first question, as we know, in the Soviet military system, the backbone was centralized command, centralized execution, and the backbone of that system was the officer corps, especially senior officers. In our NATO system, the backbone obviously is officer corp

National Defence committee  Yes, absolutely it would destabilize. Ukraine is right in the heart of Europe, the crossroads of civilizations. It's the frontier of the European Union and NATO, and therefore a collapse of Ukraine—as Mr. Putin would like to see, a failed state—would mean all kinds of issues.

National Defence committee  I agree with my colleague in that we do have limited resources. As the Canadian government, I think you should put an emphasis on two aspects. The first aspect is that we should do what we do best. A couple of things that we just talked about are training and peacekeeping. As Ca

National Defence committee  I think the fact is that the Russian propaganda is working to a certain extent because Mr. Putin has been in power for so long. They've been changing constitutions, and he plans to stay in power. There has been some minimal protest, I suppose, but by and large his power is unchal

National Defence committee  Absolutely.

National Defence committee  I fully agree with you, sir. We should be there, and we should be spending a lot of time and effort helping them out, and also learning and implementing those solutions here in Canada and with our NATO partners.

National Defence committee  I don't want to repeat myself. In my opening statement, I was talking about the counter-battery radars and Javelin missiles. There are a number of items that the Ukrainian government has asked for. The list is very long. It has been officially submitted, from what I understand, f

National Defence committee  Well, sir, I have no doubt that the majority of them are actually coming from Russia. It's very simple math. The war has been going on for four years. The so-called LNR and DNR are self-proclaimed, unrecognized Russian proxy republics. They have factories producing this ammunitio

National Defence committee  I believe you are correct in that there is a threat when we are talking about Russian aggression and specifically hybrid warfare. You're not talking about a threat to Ukraine itself but also to European and global stability and security here in the west. The key example is that,

National Defence committee  Absolutely. I think obviously for the sake of supporting our Ukrainian partners but, at the same time, more importantly for our own good. For example, the training mission that we have in Ukraine right now, yes, Canada is doing a lot to train Ukrainian troops and it saves lives a

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the Standing Committing on National Defence, for convening these important hearings and conducting the study on Canada and the crisis in Ukraine, and for the invitation to appear alongside such an impressive group of renowned experts with wh