Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. We must continue to focus on the Arctic to protect our sovereignty, not only today, tomorrow and in the coming weeks, but over the next decade. The threats to our sovereignty are not very critical right now, but in the next decade they could get wors

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. Yes, certain states, most of them authoritarian and friends or customers of superpowers like Russia and China, are taking the same position as them on the world. Other countries do not wish to join the West or the authoritarian countries. They want t

National Defence committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair, and thank you for this opportunity to discuss the security of Canada's Arctic, the threats we face and the actions that we're taking to address those threats. With me this morning, we have Major-General Peter Scott, chief of staff of Canadian joint opera

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, that is a very difficult question, one that our partners around the world have been wrestling with to determine whether they are predictable, they are rational, they are reasonable. I think, given the nature of the question, I'm going to turn it over to the commander o

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, that question speaks to the threat, and right now, today, we don't see a clear and present threat to our sovereignty—not today, not this week, not next week, not next year. However, in the decades to come, that threat, that tenuous hold that we have on our sovereignty

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, there is a lot in that question to unpack. Firstly, NORAD modernization is moving ahead. It's focused on the air domain for the most part, with investments in sensors to replace the North Warning System specifically with over-the-horizon radar. It's focused on comman

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, yes, absolutely. That's one reason these forward operating locations need to be upgraded, the technical details of which I will pass to the commander of the Canadian air force in the next session. I'll just ask Mr. Quinn if he has anything to add on NORAD.

National Defence committee  I'll say a few comments, Mr. Chair, before passing it over to Mr. Quinn. First, consultation is extremely important as we go forward with all of these projects to make sure that we have excellent mutual understanding and respect so that there are no surprises. Second, we need

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, the honourable member is absolutely right that we need to tap into that expertise, especially in terms of infrastructure construction. It's very difficult in terms of making that infrastructure durable and sustainable into the future with the changing circumstances rel

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, even though Russia is focused on Ukraine and its land forces are getting pretty chewed up there, they still retain significant capability in the other domains: cyber, space, air, maritime, surface and subsurface. As they become more isolated and they become more behol

National Defence committee  Thank you for your question. We have an excellent relationship with our American counterparts. In fact, I will be speaking with the commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD, in a few hours to talk about co‑operation in the Far North and the organization's

National Defence committee  It's important to know what the threat is and to understand it. At this time—this week or this year—the threat to our sovereignty is unclear. However, for the future, we must continue to invest in the capability we need to defend our sovereignty, perhaps unilaterally.

National Defence committee  It's certainly a priority for us. We need to continue building the capability to carry out operations in the Arctic, in all domains.

National Defence committee  That's a complicated question because a threat like that would target the continent and be considered an integrated threat. I'm going to let General Wright speak to that in more detail.

National Defence committee  That's a question for the U.S.