National Defence committee  If I may, I would like to add to my colleague's answer. Up to now, no Canadian government, even during war times, has been able to find a satisfying solution to the issues facing a region as large as the Arctic. The Canadian Armed Forces' current situation, including in the Arct

National Defence committee  There are two parts to my answer. First, we should keep going with what we're doing. NORAD modernization and the North Warning System modernization are crucial, and we should go ahead with these. We should also fix the infrastructure in the north. I think some of you mentioned

National Defence committee  Who is the question addressed to?

National Defence committee  Is the question for Dr. Braun or for me?

National Defence committee  The answer for this is to develop a very mobile capacity in the Arctic: long-range patrol aircraft or things like this. We don't have any infrastructure in the Arctic, or very significant infrastructure, so we need to develop a broader way to monitor what's happening up there. Th

National Defence committee  I want to come back to one of your remarks about needs like housing and broadening the Internet. Actually, this is not a Department of National Defence issue. There's a strategy in Canada about Internet development, and I think there were some mistakes made regarding the Arctic,

National Defence committee  I'm sorry. Could you repeat the question? There was a gap.

National Defence committee  Again, for this question, I'm not sure that this is the right place to answer it. Before, we were sometimes forgetting that there's another level of government that is involved here. Part of the Arctic is in Quebec, and many of these questions, including on housing and health car

National Defence committee  Yes, we need to have more consultation, and it's not necessarily a DND matter.

National Defence committee  The answer is yes. First off, I would say that people are perhaps not sufficiently informed. The Arctic is never top of mind for most people, and the vast majority of Canadians will never set foot in that region. Only 5% or 6% of Canadians can say that they have actually been th

National Defence committee  Thanks for your question. Actually, it's really difficult to find that balance, because the needs are so great that everything should be a priority. That's a problem. A lot of the infrastructure could have a dual use, in the sense that if you build a deepwater port or if you bui

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. Let me come back to something I mentioned very quickly in my opening remarks. The immediate threat is posed by disinformation and cyberattacks that disrupt computer systems. We have seen a number of such attacks, which are believed to have come from R

National Defence committee  I would give priority to the Arctic. In the south of Canada, the Canadian Armed Forces should be a last resort, when other options no longer exist. However, that is not what we have seen over the past few years, or even decades. Provinces often call in the military for additional

National Defence committee  Absolutely. I thank you for the question. First of all, I would like to say that we already well served. I'm referring to the Canadian Rangers, who support the Canadian Armed Forces by serving as guides and mentors in the North. This organization works extremely well and has ma

National Defence committee  That is correct. The organization currently has 5,000 Rangers, and patrols are made up of 20 to 30 members, depending on the size of the communities. We quickly reach the maximum number of people who can or want to be part of the Canadian Rangers. Many communities want to be inc