National Defence committee  Yes. As a NATO member, we're participating in missile defence in Europe. Then we say, well for some reason we haven't participated in missile defence in North America.

National Defence committee  I think it's just a political reality that it happened. Certainly from the point of view of the nations as part of NATO, we participate fully in a number of issues there that we might pretend back home we're not as actively involved in.

National Defence committee  I think Mr. Ferguson mentioned that that we'd be chasing, from the European point of view, to try to protect North America this way. The Americans know that. They would have liked at one time to have us part of this, but they are going ahead. They have monitoring in Alaska, and i

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and colleagues. A good number of you have been involved with NATO Parliamentary Assembly's activities along the way. I'm here as a resource, to talk about parliamentarians' participation in NATO Parliamentary Assembly. David has talked about some of the