Foreign Affairs committee  NATO has taken a whole series of actions to strengthen our eastern flank. One of them is the deployment of the first stages of the NATO response force to which, as has correctly been said, we have offered 3,400 troops. We have also made available troops immediately to strengthen

Foreign Affairs committee  I'd like to thank the member for his question. We have been very clear that every inch of NATO territory would be defended. We've put in place absolutely robust defence plans, which were implemented seamlessly. If there were a use of nuclear or chemical weapons against NATO terr

Foreign Affairs committee  Chair, the domestic decisions about production are not something I have visibility into, but I know from discussions here that the main challenge is getting LNG to Europe.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's certainly the case that sanctions have been ratcheted up gradually through a process of very close coordination amongst allies and partners. In part, the reason is that these are tough decisions for countries to take. We see there's still a debate within the European Union o

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll need to take the question under advisement, Chair. I don't have that detail.

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, we would like to see peace talks succeed, but we see no serious Russian commitment to peace talks.

Foreign Affairs committee  Perhaps I might take a first run at the answer. Allies and partners met in Ramstein last week to increase our support and our ability to work together to respond to Ukraine's needs. It's true, Mr. Chair, that the budget included an additional $500 million for military support f

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, perhaps I might answer the first question and defer to Heidi Kutz on the second. The premise of the Ramstein meeting was that individual allies and partners need to provide ever more sophisticated military assistance to Ukraine. This is a shift from the Soviet-era wea

Foreign Affairs committee  Intelligence agencies were quite clear early on that President Putin was intent on launching an invasion. The risks with ambiguity signalling...if you're confident that the invasion will be launched, and you're ambiguous in your signalling, there is a real risk that failure to ta

Foreign Affairs committee  The nuclear rhetoric that has been employed very much by President Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov has been condemned. It's reckless and dangerous. There was an indication of a change of Russia's nuclear status, but in fact, we've not seen anything to back that up. We are very

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I too want to wish everyone Eid Moubarak. I'm pleased to be here before the committee today. I'll make some brief introductory comments, and then my colleagues and I will happily answer your questions. On the 68th day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, NATO in the past two years has focused a lot of attention on China to understand the implications of Chinese activities on Euro-Atlantic security. There is an enormous increase in the Chinese military capability, for example. It's being pursued with a degree of opacity

National Defence committee  I would just add, Mr. Chair, that it's also true in the naval field, where we have been leading and contributing to standing naval maritime groups very effectively.

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, the choice of whether to seek to join the alliance or not is one that individual countries make. For historical reasons, neither Finland nor Sweden has chosen to seek to join the alliance. Notwithstanding that, we have very close working relationships with them. We're

National Defence committee  The 2% of funding issue is part of a package of commitments that leaders entered into in 2014 to work towards spending 2% of GDP on defence and commitments relating to capacity as well and to actually doing the necessary in terms of military heavy lifting. Canada continues to mak