National Defence committee  When you mentioned the word “allied”, at this point in time, as we've mentioned a couple of times, it's clearly on the land between the U.S. and Canada. When other countries do come, they come as observers to watch, or they could be invited, but there are lots of sovereign issues

National Defence committee  I would quickly add that I think you have to ask whether it was even being used at this point in time. I think you're going to find it wasn't being used all that much to start with, so what would be the impact of going from 12 months to one month? It would be minimum, marginal.

National Defence committee  It's a good question for the Prime Minister to answer.

National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  Training in northern Canada is done in a way very similar to the United States, but it is only with the army. Other countries may be on site to observe what happens, but they are not there as participants. It is important to specify that. As my colleague explained, there are no a

National Defence committee  I think that's a great question. To begin with, as I mentioned, perhaps some of the pieces of the answer could be to stand up indigenous units in the north that are commanded and controlled by indigenous folks and not by people from the south. We do this right now. That's the w

National Defence committee  I would build on that and ask whether Canada can participate effectively and efficiently in all of these commitments. I think the short answer is no, but to be fair, I think the answer has been no for a very long time. It's not driven by any particular government being in power,

National Defence committee  As it was mentioned before, remember that it's the elements of national power that are used. I'll give you an example. If you take a look at Afghanistan and ask what the country of Japan did in Afghanistan, militarily, it did very little. Economically, it did a lot. I think t

National Defence committee  It's interesting. I've gained not a different perspective but an additional perspective, since I left the military, of the importance of not just the military. Like my colleague, I've travelled throughout the north in that capacity, and one of the pieces that could be put into p

National Defence committee  The commander who spoke to you about the joint task force spoke to you from Yellowknife. The question is, does he know everything that's going on across the north from Yellowknife? The response is that AI is here now, so we know everything. I would challenge that in a polite wa

National Defence committee  What we did was a pilot—this was about a decade ago—to see whether or not this would work. It was actually done by another government department, not by the Department of National Defence, which came with us into the north as part of Operation Nanook and put a cable under the wat

National Defence committee  I'll answer that really quickly and turn to my colleague. I'm happy you brought up the bomber aspect. We have something we can do in response to the bombers coming close to Canadian territorial or sovereign space. What do you have in your tool box right now to address the submar

National Defence committee  Yes. Just from an information perspective, if my colleague was within the U.S. chain of command, kind of, and I was outside of it, and let's say we were there at the same time and I was working with another U.S. commander, he would know a lot more than I would, and he couldn't ev

National Defence committee  Advances in AI haven't really developed as much as I think someone may have said, which is why I came to the committee today. It's still too problematic to do it from home, which is why I came in person. I would challenge the idea that AI is now developed to a point where it's am

National Defence committee  I think time is still the most important question. When should we start it all? It should start today.