National Defence committee  I'm not sure if you can hear me better. I'm not sure whether the interpreters can hear me clearly. I will let Mr. Quinn answer the first part, and then I'll add what's specific to NORAD reform.

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, I truly apologize for the current state of the technology. All I'm going to add to what Mr. Quinn said is that at NORAD, in a number of symposiums, we have looked at how we're going to do business better in the future, in terms of not only the use of infrastructure,

National Defence committee  Can you answer?

National Defence committee  The U.S. does not have to intercept and destroy the missile because Canada chose not to sign the anti‑ballistic missile treaty—

National Defence committee  I'd like to add to what Mr. Quinn said, if I may. Once the over-the-horizon radar mentioned earlier is in place, it will provide defence in depth for the Arctic area, namely thanks to the approaches at 1000 hours and 1400 hours, that is, towards Alaska and Greenland. This will p

National Defence committee  I have just two things to add to what Mr. Quinn said. Clearly, consultations are important in the process to modernize NORAD. We need to make sure that our current and future activities support each of those communities in a complementary way. That's something that's important t

National Defence committee  Major-General Huddleston, would you like to answer the question for the Canadian NORAD region?

National Defence committee  First of all, we do have a limited air-to-air refuelling capability that we've employed over the years. Canada and the Royal Canadian Air Force have been providing both our tactical tankers, the C-130H tanker as well as the Airbus, which has a multi-role platform as well, to supp

National Defence committee  First of all, the North Warning System, as is, is very limited in its ability to actually detect the current threat represented by Russia right now, and China in the future—especially given that the threat from China may be coming from the west coast, and the North Warning System

National Defence committee  Thank you for your question. I'm going to ask Mr. Quinn to answer first, and then I'll take over.

National Defence committee  We don't talk about a specific number of activities, given the fact that some of them are reactions or actions against.... The activities vary, but I can say that the number has increased. In 2022, we've seen one of the largest numbers since the reduction in Russian activities in

National Defence committee  The country would not report their activities if they're intending to actually operate in the Arctic, either below the surface or above the surface. Quite often we depend on our threat warning and attack assessments, our detection systems and capabilities in the air and the marit

National Defence committee  I'm not an expert with regard to the Northwest Passage. I believe that countries are expected to actually report transiting through the Northwest Passage proper, but that's a system I'm not familiar with. Maybe Mr. Quinn would be able to answer that.

National Defence committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. My name is Lieutenant-General Alain Pelletier. I'm the deputy commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, known as NORAD, and we are headquartered at Pete

Government Operations committee  Obviously we talk about integrated deterrence. That's the approach that we're using. We always say that integrated deterrence starts abroad, but it also includes more of a whole-of-government effort, because you don't only deter with that national instrument that is the military.