National Defence committee  As for me, I got lucky because I didn't really know what to say and I didn't know where you were taking this as a committee. I looked at it as a big problem, and I thought, well, hybrid warfare has to go in there somewhere because that's the big threat. That's where I threw a lot

National Defence committee  No, I was the one who made that remark. Basically, what I meant by that was that Russia would probably object, in the UN, to Canada running that UN mission for the reason that we're very close to the U.S.

National Defence committee  I think it would be a good opportunity for Canada to lead a UN mission because then it would show that we are putting up and not just ignoring things. No, I think Canada should be a part of that mission. I think it's an integral mission. It's probably one of the most important m

National Defence committee  Afghanistan was a totally different war. They didn't have the capabilities of the Russians, but the Afghans threw the Russians out or made them withdraw, so they must have done something right. What I'm saying is that instead of just giving them basic military training, we need

National Defence committee  Governments have to realize that Ukraine has now basically been attacked. What are we going to do about it? Until they come to solving that conundrum, we're not really going to know, because whatever the decision is, it's going to be a government decision. The Ukrainians have a

National Defence committee  We need to support Ukraine because that's where we have to make a stand. Not just Canada—

National Defence committee  —NATO, and everybody else. If we don't do that, I believe there will probably be another attack somewhere to try to do the same thing. We have to be consistent and say, if you do this again, we will respond. We're not going to go to war over this. I don't think that, and I wouldn

National Defence committee  If we're not training our own officers how to deal with hybrid warfare, it means the Ukrainians are probably not dealing with it either. Maybe what we have to do is to start at their high command and then work our way down through the ranks to—

National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  Time. When you have a country that has been a Soviet bloc country for so many years, they're trained in their doctrine, they're trained in their military procedures and everything else, then all of a sudden the country decides it wants to go—

National Defence committee  For 15 years.

National Defence committee  If these former bloc countries are going to come into NATO and into the west full time, they're going to have to be retrained, re-equipped, to deal as a member of NATO, not as a member of an independent country or an independent member of a Baltic state. That's going to take time

National Defence committee  I am not a political animal. I speak from experience. I don't want to speak from a political angle because what I am saying.... I know. I'm watching your faces, and your eyes, and you're saying “Oh, my God”. I can only tell you what I think. I'm not saying for one minute that I

National Defence committee  We have a government. We have a Prime Minister. Diplomacy is obviously the best way to go. It depends on whether Putin, who has his own agenda, is going to listen to our Prime Minister, or the American president, or anybody else. At this moment he has his own agenda. He doesn't c

National Defence committee  No.