National Defence committee  As you can appreciate, sir, I'm not able to give you the details of those targets. I might have said 40, but there are actually a bit more than 40 if I compare them to the last cycle. What I can say to you is that Canada was given 222 targets this time. At this particular junctur

National Defence committee  This is exactly right. There's a seam between NORAD and NATO, and we do need to understand the seams and what we can and cannot do. In the future, this could be something that could be worked on a bit better. We talked about AWACS a few minutes ago. Maybe AWACS could work better

National Defence committee  At that particular juncture, NATO AWACS was not doing a lot in terms of out-of-area operations.

National Defence committee  A lot more now.

National Defence committee  Yes, we do exactly that. We did provide AWACS with regard to supporting ISR in both Iraq and Syria and to Turkey, for that matter.

National Defence committee  I'm not sure what you are referring to with that particular comment. I've never heard that it put the program in a precarious position. It just put the program where I think it should be. He has to understand what is happening within NATO territory, but we also need to understand

National Defence committee  [Technical difficulty--Editor] I would provide you the context as far as I can, and I'm not going to take the role of the chief of defence staff, as you will understand. It is his role to provide that advice. For NATO, AWACS is clearly a very important program in providing ISR as

National Defence committee  Canada withdrew from that program, if I can go back a little bit. At that particular juncture, we were one of the founding members of the AWACS community. We were the third largest contributor to AWACS, in terms of funds and personnel. In 2011 when we announced that we were going

National Defence committee  Our rationale was that at that point we were going through a strategic review, and we were looking at the least performing program. At that particular juncture, we thought that the NATO AWACS program was not doing enough out-of-area of operations that we had asked to receive some

National Defence committee  I can take this one, Mr. Chairman. Capability is directly related to the NATO defence planning process that I explained earlier. NATO defends the planning process. As I said, it's a four-year process and it starts with five steps. The first step is talking about the environment,

National Defence committee  Can I add something to this, Mr. Chairman?

National Defence committee  If I may, I'd like to answer that question, Mr. Chair. In response to your question, the ambassador talked about financial, capability, and military contributions. I'd like to discuss the capability component in greater detail. NATO has a capability planning process that is rev

National Defence committee  Good morning. I'm pleased to be able to be at this committee today. Thank you for the invitation. I would like to start by stating my role as a representative of the chief of the defence staff on a permanent basis at NATO. I fill two main functions. First of all, I represent the